Workshop “Young Cartography Scientists”

75th anniversary of German Cartographic Society
May 15th , 2025, Berlin State Library, Unter den Linden 8, Germany

10:00-11:00   Session 1 – Historical Map Annotation and Mobility Analytics

Arzoumanidis, Lukas (HafenCity University Hamburg)
Automated generation of annotated historical maps for the semantic interpretation of homogeneous map sets

Xia, Xue (ETH Zurich)
MapAI: Innovations in AI for Topologically Consistent, Low-Resource, and Temporally Aligned Historical Map Processing

Xue, Jiaying (TU Munich)
Trajectory Data Analysis for Pedestrian Mobility Insights

Liu, Zihan (TU Munich)
Leveraging Visual Analytics to Explore Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction

11:00-11:30   Coffee break

11:30-12:30   Session 2 – Automated Generalization and Data Quality

Zaengerle, Veronika & Hildenbrand, Lydia (BKG, Frankfurt)
Automated generalisation of the Digital Topograpic Map 1:1000k of Germany – a software analysis

Ajdack, Iga (University of Warsaw)
Unifying River Network Selection for Small-Scale Maps with Machine Learning

Adolf   Albert (University of Warsaw)
Graph convolutional networks for small-scale road selection

Wang, Wangshu (TU Munich)
Intrinsic OpenStreetMap road data quality analytics

12:30-13:30   Lunch break

13:30-14:30   Guided tour through the map collection of the Berlin State Library (optional)

14:30-15:30   Session 3 – Semantic Places and Virtual Reality

Gugulica, Madalina (TU Dresden)
SemantiPlace: A Geosocial Media-Based Application for Inferring and Mapping Place Semantics

Urbanek, Sebastian (BHT Berlin)
3D Reconstruction of Lost Places in Virtual Reality

Reichert, Katrin (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
An investigation into the use of virtual reality to evaluate urban planning concepts using the example of lighting in fear-inducing areas

Olberding, Helge (TH Würzburg-Schweinfurt)
User Study on Interactive Cartography in VR: The Role of Visual Symbol Properties in Task Performance

17:00-21:00   75th Anniversary of the DGfK Celebration with Standing Reception