Mar 13, 2025
Cartography students at the congress DIGITALE WELTEN 2025
DIGITALE WELTEN 2025, a congress for geoinformatics and geodesy, took place on 13 March 2025 in the city hall of Dresden. Every year, this event offers a platform for face-to-face meetings with representatives of public administration, science and companies through open specialist discussion and personal exchange of opinions. The congress is accompanied by a trade exhibition of Saxon and national institutions and companies.
One session of this congress is dedicated to education and research, and selected students can briefly present their projects or theses. Three of our international cartography students were given the opportunity to introduce their project for the "Mobile Cartography" module, which is taught at TU Dresden.
The project is a mobile map application called “Tales of Dresden”. The app created by Marcel Siedlich (Poland), Ridwan Waheed (Nigeria), and Keying Fan (China) offers an exceptional interactive tour guide experience for exploring Dresden's landmarks. Through different historical personalities, the user can explore landmarks associated with each character, with each guide telling stories about these landmarks from their own perspective. For example, King Augustus the Strong speaks differently about the Zwinger Palace than Erich Honecker does, who prefers to talk about the Palace of Culture and other buildings of this era that King Augustus the Strong does not even know.
Some participants were certainly surprised to suddenly hear an English presentation at the German-speaking congress, but the sympathic group impressed with their creatively designed application and their unique idea.
The students giving their presentation