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52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

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Participation history

11 GSoC years

2026

2 projects

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MCP for OGC APIs — Developing Model Context Protocols for the Suite of OGC APIs

OGC APIs — Features, Records, EDR, and Processes — are powerful but inaccessible to non-developers. This project builds a formal MCP mapping...

Weather Routing Tool - QGIS Plugin

The 52°North Weather Routing Tool (WRT) computes fuel-optimal maritime routes but is entirely configuration-file-driven, making it inaccessible to...

2025

2 projects

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Complete Angular migration of the KomMonitor Web Client

The KomMonitor web client, a tool for geospatial data monitoring in urban planning, is currently based on AngularJS and requires a complete migration...

Weather Routing Tool

The Weather Routing Tool is a system designed to find optimal shipping routes between two geographic points, taking into account weather data, local...

2024

2 projects

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enviroCar App: Mapbox to MapLibre migration

The enviroCar Android app provides capabilities for visualizing user related tracks within a map. For this feature, the app makes use of several...

Cloud-native OGC SensorThings API

OGC SensorThings API is an international standard to eliminate vendor lock-ins in IoT systems and to create an open geospatial ecosystem by defining...

2023

3 projects

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KomMonitor Web Client: Migration to Angular

KomMonitor is an open-source web client developed by the Bochum University of Applied Sciences as a research project. It has been developed in...

Extending and Stabilizing enviroCar App: Voice Command

Road safety is of utmost importance, and avoiding distracted driving is a critical aspect of maintaining safety on the road. One of the major...

Proposal for contributing in LocationToolkit Integration

This proposal aims to implement a location privacy toolkit in the enviroCar app, a mobile platform for handling personal location information. The...

2022

5 projects

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UI for the Arctic Sea settings API (Faroe)

The Arctic sea is a framework for developing OGC services, clients and middleware sharing concepts for encoding and decoding of different formats and...

enviroCar Platform Independent App: Add UI for Data Privacy Settings/Control

enviroCar is a citizen science community that collects, shares, and analyzes floating car data for traffic management and the environment. It...

enviroCar App: Voice Command

Having your phone with you in your car is useful for a lot of reasons and enviroCar helps in the same way. But at the same time, it’s also a...

enviroCar App: New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixing

enviroCar Mobile is an Android application for smartphones that can be used to collect Extended Floating Car Data. The app communicates with an OBD2...

Python client for OGC Maps API

OGC Maps API provides crucial information for analyzing maps and map data. The geospatial data is currently fetched using REST APIs, and each time...

2021

3 projects

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Improving User experience in enviroCar Android

The features implemented in recent years have greatly enhanced the functionality of the app. Currently, All basic features which help in...

enviroCar Platform Independent App

Platform Independent enviroCar App enviroCar is a Citizen Science tool that is used by citizens, traffic planners, scientists and companies to...

Groundwork for platform independent app

EnviroCar is a citizen science community that collects, shares, and analyzes floating car data for traffic management and the environment. It...

2020

3 projects

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Angular WPS Client library

Develop a full-fledged Typescript based Web Processing Service (WPS) library, which will implement all features defined by OGC WPS Interface...

Improvement of the Car Selection Process in the enviroCar Android App

enviroCar App is currently in fully functional state yet there are some issues which allows users to create artificial types of cars with arbitrary...

Trajectory Analytics Toolbox

The proposed project is to create a general purpose analytics toolbox in R that provides meaningful analysis of individual trajectories and...

2019

2 projects

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Improve enviroCar Android User Interface & User Experience

UI and UX design is a subject of great importance in app development. The three pillars of my contribution to the enviroCar project are as follows:- ...

WPS .NET Library & ArcGIS Pro Add-In

Many professional Windows desktop applications are created with .NET technologies thanks to its close ties with its home native environment. Some...

2018

1 project

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Plain GPS-based Recording for enviroCar

Currently, recording procedure in the enviroCar android application will be started only when user's phone is connected to the OBD-II adapter through...

2017

1 project

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Simple Features for protobuf and others

The Simple Feature Access Specification (aka. Simple Features) is a common standard for exchanging spatial features that is widely used in...

2016

3 projects

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Terrain Model Generation and Analysis

The 52°North Triturus library, is extremely powerful and provides a lot of functionalities. This library is used in a lot of interesting projects...

Usability improvements for smle

Usability improvements and new features development for smle - web-based SensorML descriptions editor.

Visual Analytics of EnviroCar Tracks

The EnviroCar project intends to provide users with detailed information regarding various phenomenons of vehicle performance. The motivation of this...