The Lab for Geoinformatics and Geovisualization (g2lab) is responsible for coordinating the relevant education within the Bachelor and Master programs in Geomatics at the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU), and for fostering research and development in this field. Researchers from various disciplines are working together dedicated to topics like modeling and visualization of uncertainties, usability of maps, cartographic algorithms or Geovisual Analytics.
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Ongoing project: aChor
g2lab has received funding by the German Research Foundation
(DFG) for a project on improving the task-oriented generation of
choropleth maps.
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Ongoing project: Addition of storeys
In this interdisciplinary Master thesis a GIS-based
estimation of the potential for adding storeys in Hamburg has been
conducted - leading to strong attention in politics, etc.
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Successfully finished project: UeGeo
g2lab has received funding by the German Federal Ministry of
Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) for a project within the
mFUND-program that enables the overlay of geodata with different
reference geometries
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Successfully finished project: Finding Places Hamburg
g2lab is involved in the HCU City Science Lab,
a co-operation with MIT Boston
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as well as in the project Finding Places for
searching and evaluating living space for refugees in Hamburg.
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Successfully finished project: 3D "Dive through" the Elbe
Together with the newspaper WELT g2lab has developed new
views of
the river Elbe, showing the riverbed in a couple of 3D interactive
views and videos
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New publication
The paper “Preserving attribute value differences of
neighboring regions in classified choropleth maps” by Jochen
Schiewe was published in the International Journal of Cartography.
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New publication
The paper “Die Kombination von geographischen Daten
verschiedener Bezugsräume mittels
Flächeninterpolation – Methoden für
Datenjournalisten und Datenjournalistinnen“ by Beate Tomio,
Jochen Schiewe and Julius Tröger was published in the
Kartographische Nachrichten.
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Henry Johns Award
Our paper "How to Assess Visual Communication of Uncertainty?
A
Systematic Review of Geospatial Uncertainty Visualisation User Studies"
(authors: Christoph Kinkeldey, Alan MacEachren & Jochen
Schiewe)
has been recognized with the “Henry Johns Award”
for the
most outstanding paper published in The Cartographic Journal
in 2014.
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The Remarkable Map
Die Bemerkenswerte Karte ("The Remarkable Map") is a blog that is coordinated and shaped by Anita Graser (Austrian Institute of Technology), Dennis Edler (Ruhr-University Bochum), Friedrich Hartmann (HERE) and Johannes Kröger (g2lab).
In the media
A video recording of an interview with Jochen Schiewe on
current trends in Cartography - on the occasion of INTERGEO 2017
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A video recording of a presentation given by Jochen Schiewe on
collaborative and interactive work with atlases
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A video recording of a presentation given by Jochen Schiewe on
uncertainty in media maps (October 22, 2015) - starting at minute 3:40
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A radio interview with Beate Weninger, Jochen Schiewe
and Johannes
Kröger on sound and color in maps - broadcasted
on NDR Info
(August 23, 2013)
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A radio interview with Jochen Schiewe on uncertainty
information
and trust in maps - broadcasted on Deutschlandfunk (August 29,
2013)
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A radio interview with Jochen Schiewe and Johannes
Kröger on
maps that help people with color vision deficiency - broadcasted on
Deutschlandfunk (September 30, 2013)
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Textbook
Textbook "Geoinformatik"
The textbook on "Geoinformatik" (in German), written
by Jochen
Schiewe in co-operation with Manfred Ehlers (University of
Osnabrück) is still available.
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