SoC Application Rankings by Project 2008

= Final Ranking = Note: The student application rankings on the Google Summer of Code web application have been modified to reflect the ranking below.

= GRASS =
 * 1) v.buffer rewrite-  Rosen Matev: Reimplement And Add Features to Buffer Generation
 * 2) wxNVIZ-  Martin Landa: 2.5/3D visualization tool for wxPython GRASS GUI
 * 3) v.voronoi rewrite-  Martin Pavlovsky: Reimplementation of v.voronoi and v.delaunay
 * 4) wxSQL GUI-  Scott Fletcher: SQL Query Builder for GRASS
 * 5) r.cva/r.los replacement-  William Richard: Improving Visibility Algorithms

= GeoServer =
 * 1) H2 database spatial indexing
 * 2) GeoWebCache Improvements - REST API
 * 3) Vespucci Development - Creating a Collaborative Front End for GeoServer
 * 4) Python spatial web application framework

= GeoTools =
 * 1) Image mosacking/pyramidal geotools plugin
 * 2) JMagick integration with ImageIO-EXT
 * 3) Raster polygonalization for GeoTools
 * 4) KML reader for Geotools

= uDig =
 * 1) Raster-Map-Calc for uDig
 * 2) Digital Elevation Model for software uDig
 * 3) Vector Map-Calc for uDig

= Mapbender =
 * 1) Developing an Automated Update Routine for Mapbender (Siddharth Prakash Singh)
 * 2) Mapbender Administrator Modules (Len Kne)
 * 3) Mapbender Administration Module Re-implementation (Arif Hidayat)

= GDAL =
 * 1) GDAL Read/Write driver for TMS tiles  Václav Klusák
 * 2) GDAL2Tiles Improvement Petr Pridal
 * 3) Openstreetmap OGR driver   Olga Mardar

= OpenLayers =
 * 1) Improve OpenLayers Vector, Selection, and Editing Support  (crschmit)
 * 2) OL Architect: OpenLayers Map Creation Application Toolkit (Eric Lemoine or Cameron Shorter depending on technology selected by student)
 * 3) A cluster marker manager for OpenLayers, Eric Uzureau

= OpenJUMP =
 * 1) OpenJUMP-3D
 * 2) Graphical Modeling for Geographic Data Processing

= QGIS =
 * 1) Enhance Labeling of Features, Student Galen Mecham - Mentor Gary Sherman (DANGER)
 * 2) Home-range analyses in QGIS using R through Python, Student  Anne Ghisla - Mentor Timothy

= Laval University =
 * 1) Laval University/CamptoCamp 2008 SoC - Geo-BI dashboards