SoC Report 2015

Contact Name: Margherita Di Leo

OSGeo Google summer of Code participation in 2015

For Google Summer of Code 2015, the admins Margherita Di Leo and Anne Ghisla, and the mentors, selected 13 students, one for each project who provided mentoring support.

Key accomplishments

Our students this year were all successful, and developed the following projects:

• GDAL - Faza Mahamood: Integration of GDAL utilities into GDAL core library

• GRASS GIS - Matej Krejci: Improved Metadata for GRASS GIS

• gvSIG - Eva Rodríguez: Port Network Analysis Extension to gvSIG 2.x branch

• istSOS - Luca Ambrosini: Scalability for Big data processing for istSOS

• JGRASSTOOLS - Silvia Franceschi: Development of a simple 1D hydraulic model for JGRASSTOOLS

• MapServer - Samuel Lapointe: Add productivity tools to MapServer's ScribeUI

• Opticks - Tom Van den Eynde: Image Enhancement/Background Suppression for Opticks

• OTP - Nipuna Gunathilake: GTFS-Realtime validation tool for Open Trip Planner

• OSGeo-Live - Massimo Di Stefano: Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks

• OSSIM - Martina Di Rita: OSSIM tool for DSM generation using tri-stereo and SAR imagery

• pgRouting - Sarthak Agarwal: New osm2pgrouting import tool to import OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in pgRouting

• PyWPS - Calin Ciociu: REST interface for PyWPS 4

• QGIS - Marcus Santos: QGIS - Multithread support on QGIS Processing toolbox

At the Google_Summer_of_Code_2015_Results GSoC 2015 Results page, the students provided detailed info on their achievements and directions how to test the applications they developed.