52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH

Mentors: Student: Mihai Stan

<p>Many professional Windows desktop applications are created with .NET technologies thanks to its close ties with its home native environment. Some software like ArcGIS Pro need to consume different APIs, in this scenario a WPS library written with C# will be needed to create an Add-In for the software, allowing its users to fetch complex geographical data from various web services providers.</p>

Mentors: Student: Shiva Kanth Sujit

<p>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:-</p> <ol> <li>Redesign of UI to improve User Interaction</li> <li>UX overhaul to ease usability</li> <li>Updating the libraries used in the project</li> </ol>

Mentors: Student: Sai Krishna Chowrigari

<p>Currently, recording procedure in the enviroCar android application will be started only when user's phone is connected to the OBD-II adapter through Bluetooth. I would like to add the following features to the application :</p> <ol> <li>Allow the user to record the track without connecting to the OBD-II adapter(Plain GPS Recording).</li> <li>Embed activity recognition API in the app, so that some of the things like starting and ending of track become automatic. </li> <li>Redesign the Dashboard of the app. </li> <li>View live track data like RPM, CO2, Consumption, etc. to the user while tracking.</li> <li>Upgrade some of the old libraries used in the app(eg: Dagger, ButterKnife, etc.).</li> </ol>

Mentors: Student: Malith Withanage Don

<p>The Simple Feature Access Specification (aka. Simple Features) is a common standard for exchanging spatial features that is widely used in geoinformatics in Open Source projects as well as in proprietary programs. It defines a generic data model for storing and accessing geographic data and their geometry types.</p> <p>Protocol Buffers is a format for data serialization which has inbuilt features such as binary serialization, RPC frameworks and IDL. Its unique features such as flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data but with smaller, faster, and simpler manner makes it a very good candidate for ​ data serialization use cases.</p> <p>JTS Topology Suite (JTS), which is a free and open source library containing geometries that correspond to the Simple Feature Access Standard.</p> <p>Main goal of the project is to define and implement of a serialization API based on JTS, which transparently serializes geometries based on the Simple Feature specification using Protocol Buffers. Extending support for other serialization frameworks such as Avro and support for raster data will also be addressed based on time constraints.</p>

Mentors: Student: sheff_146

<p>Usability improvements and new features development for smle - web-based SensorML descriptions editor.</p>