Michael Auer, Diploma Geographer
Environmental Science
Enviral
Germany
Biography
2010: Research Assistant, GIScience research group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University 2009: Research Assistant (wiss.MA), Research Group Cartography, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn 2008: Research Assistant (WHK), Research Group Cartography, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn 2007: Thesis: The use of web maps on german tourist-internet-portals in the context of travel prearrangement.- University of Trier 2005: Project: A Map for San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua - scholarship of the ASA programs of InWEnt gGmbH to develop a regional tourist map 2002-2003: foreign studies at University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1999-2007: Study of Applied Human Geography, University of Trier; main subjects: Tourism Geography, Cartography, Macroeconomics
Research Interest
3D-WebGIS, web-mapping, map-usability, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Digital Humanities