Benjamin Herfort
Benjamin Herfort is researcher at HeiGIT and Heidelberg University. In his PhD he has investigated questions of representation and data quality in OpenStreetMap from the perspectives of humanitarian and machine learning-assisted mapping in order to map what is not mapped. In his research and work he is furthermore dealing with the temporal evolution of OpenStreetMap data, MapSwipe and information from social media.
Benjamin works as a product owner at HeiGIT where he is developing open source tools and methods that incorporate geographic information systems for disaster management, humanitarian aid and climate action.
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Turn OpenStreetMap data into routing insights with openrouteservice and QGIS, no servers, no sign-ups, no code.
In this 90-minute hands-on session for newcomers and intermediates, you’ll:
- See how OSM tags become a routable network and why popular routing engines offer directions, isochrones & matrices per default and what they do.
- Connect the ORS-Tools QGIS-plugin with the public openrouteservice API with API-keys we hand out on the spot.
- Build multiprofile routes around the SotM venue, calculate hospital service areas in Manila, and solve a medicine delivery to every of those hospitals with the help of easy to access vehicle optimisation.
You’ll walk away with a reusable QGIS project, a tutorial, and the confidence and knowledge to repeat the workflow anywhere, anytime.
OpenStreetMap has celebrated its 20th birthday last year. Over the past two decades the community grew tremendously and now covers (almost) the entire globe. This talk summarizes OSM’s evolution with maps and meaningful numbers. We want to take a look at the “state of the map”, current mapping trends and some of the challenges that we face.
We look at the size of the active community, analyse regional differences in mapping and look at the impact of mobile OSM editors such as StreetComplete and Every Door. Let’s also take a brief look at humanitarian mapping, corporate mapping and the impact of AI-generated data and Street View Imagery on OSM’s future.
This talk is intended to be an introduction and puts a focus on the basics. Each topic mentioned above would probably deserve its own talk!