OpenRouter 2012 SOC Ideas


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= OpenRouter/pgRouting 2012 SOC Ideas =

Enter ideas for development projects here. Note these are just suggestions - students are welcome to propose projects based on their own interests that relate to OpenRouter/pgRouting. Our current efforts are based on the following projects:


 * pgRouting. This routing library provides routing functionality to PostGIS/PostgreSQL.
 * OpenGraphRouter. This project is a C++ library and tools to build a commercial grade routing engine.

You can find the source code, tutorials, the project mailing list and various other information at the links above.

To give you an idea about possible SoC projects, here are some suggestions:

pgRouting related ideas
Read a list of possible improvements on the pgRouting project website


 * http://www.pgrouting.org/rfc/index.html
 * https://github.com/pgRouting/website/issues

See the project ideas of the last year summer of code:


 * pgRouting 2010 SOC Ideas
 * pgRouting 2011 SOC Ideas

OpenGraphRouter related ideas
Continue work on this new general purpose OpenSource Routing library that is designed to be modular and reusable and could be used with or without a database.

See the project ideas of the last year summer of code:


 * OpenRouter 2011 SOC Ideas

Routing for Android
Port OpenRouter, or other suitable routing library (e.g. gosmore, navit) to Android mobile platform (Java or NDK). Possible mentor or co-mentor: Jaak Laineste (jaak (at) nutiteq (dot) com, developer of http://www.nutiteq.com/android-mapping-api-sdk

Lots of other options
There are a lot of other possibilities that we would be happy to discuss with any students interested. Best you contact us on the pgRouting mailing list:


 * http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-dev

= Mentor Candidates =

The following individuals are potentially willing to serve as OpenRouter/pgRouting mentors or co-mentors.


 * Daniel Kastl daniel.kastl (at) georepublic (dot) de
 * Stephen Woodbridge woodbri (at) swoodbridge (dot) com