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We are announcing the major release of openrouteservice with version 10.0.0 also known as Amalthea. This release focuses mostly on our technical foundation. It upgrades Java and Spring Boot, reduces the set of release artifacts to a fat jar and Docker ima

Residential space heating produces substantial carbon dioxide emissions, but local climate efforts are often limited by a lack of detailed, location specific data. This study helps fill that gap by introducing an open-source tool that estimates direct, or

Street-level imagery is distributed unevenly, which complicates systematic analysis based on the data. Some regions contain a few isolated sequences or no imagery at all. In a busy city center, the same boulevard has been driven, cycled, and walked dozens

The scale of this crisis is already visible in global environmental indicators. Seven of eight safe and just Earth System Boundaries have already been breached. Most of the world's population is affected by multiple boundary violations. Health impacts inc

The 9 hottest summers are all in this century, and city administrations need evidence at street level in order to respond to the individual challenges of each neighborhood. We provide free, high-resolution shade data for European cities together with two

Originally from tropical and subtropical Asia, Aedes albopictus has spread to nearly all continents through passive transport of eggs. Now established in parts of Germany, including the Upper Rhine Valley, the species poses both a public health risk and a

HeiGIT and the Walk21 Foundation have been collaborating to strengthen how urban walkability is assessed. Walk21 has contributed its expertise on walking and experience of working with cities and practitioners to help identify and refine the factors that

In many fast-growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, waste collection often cannot keep up with the pace of urban expansion. As a result, waste can build up in streets, along waterways and drainage systems, and in other public spaces. These smaller, scatter

A new indicator for the Lancet Countdown In Europe, cities are center stage for climate action. With three-quarters of the continent's population and a majority of both energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions, cities play a fundamental role in achievin

Why Mongolia's rangelands Land restoration sits at the intersection of climate action, water security, biodiversity, and community resilience. In Mongolia these pressures converge. Temperatures have risen at roughly three times the global average in recen