Can tourism and nature conservation be reconciled in the Canariy Islands, a hotspot for biodiversity and mass tourism? A report from an expert workshop tackles drivers of change, problems, information needs and ways forward – out now!

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geography/2024/07/04/tourism-and-thoughtlessness-threaten-the-nature-of-the-canary-islands-report-from-an-expert-workshop-out-now/

Check out the report here: https://doi.org/10.31885/2024.062702
En español: https://doi.org/10.31885/2024.062701
Press release: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/environmental-protection/tourism-and-thoughtlessness-threaten-nature-canary-islands
#MOBICON

Wir wollen, dass Du einfach & unkompliziert verschiedene Verkehrsmittel – idealerweise mit nur einer App – buchen, bezahlen & dann nutzen kannst. Daten sind dafür Grundvoraussetzung. Mit dem Mobilitätsdatengesetz wollen wir mehr & bessere Infrastrukturdaten bereitstellen.

"Gebraucht werden Daten auch für das Entwickeln von #KI-Anwendungen. KI ist ein Gamechanger. Diese Chance wollen & müssen wir nutzen", so Volker Wissing auf der #MobiCon.

Unser Ziel: 🇩🇪 digitaler, mobiler & einfacher machen!

How can we find and locate place names from texts? How can we do it for Finnish?

Results from my #PhD and the @digigeolab #MOBICON project are starting to trickle out! A paper out soon, but the OS #Python tool for Finnish "geoparsing" is available here https://github.com/Tadusko/fi-geoparser

Now to the fun part: writing documentation...

#geoparsing

Climate change, silver tourism, influencers! The 2nd @digigeolab #MOBICON workshop with protected area and outdoor recreation managers, now in University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Co-learning about the changing nature-based tourism on the islands and how big data sources might help in visitor monitoring. Read more about our trip:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/digital-geography/2024/04/03/big-data-big-changes-project-mobicon-in-the-canary-islands-for-a-workshop-and-presentations/

Today in #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023 is @matabatchi Our doctoral researcher 🔍‍, who uses big data and machine learning techniques 🤖 to study human visits in green spaces 🚶🌳 in #MOBICON project.

In his MSc thesis, Matti studied the role of nature for tourists visiting the Canary Islands, making use of #Flickr posts and their contents. Read the thesis here: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/359276

Today in #DigiGeoLab_AdventCalendar_2023

Meet Tatu, a doctoral researcher in #MOBICON. His work tackles the intricacies of big data by structuring raw input and revealing the geographies of user-generated data over time. Goal: a framework to operationalize big data in greenspace management.