Research

The Institute of Geography at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg is one of the strongest research centres in German-speaking geography. In rankings of the publication performance or the acquisition of research funds, the researchers at Erlangen geography regularly reach top positions (eg CHE-/Zeit-Ranking 2018, DFG-Förderatlas 2018).



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The German Research Foundation funded research project "Open geospatial data at the intersection of digital commoning, digital humanitarianism, and digital capitalism: Transformations and tensions in OpenStreetMap" investigates transformations and tensions in the field of open geodata, digital commo...