Hi everyone!
I’m Shashaank Srivastava, and I’m excited to be joining 52°North for Google Summer of Code 2026. This summer, I’ll be working on building a QGIS plugin for the Weather Routing Tool (WRT). This blog marks the beginning of my GSoC journey, where I’ll share progress updates, technical decisions, challenges, and learnings throughout the summer. As an introductory post, I’ll talk about the project, the ideas behind it, what I aim to achieve, and a little about myself.
Kick-off for developing an interface to consume municipal statistical data from DUVA within KomMonitor
The open-source monitoring software KomMonitor and the information management system DUVA have coexisted for several years, forming the core part of workflows for users in municipal statistics, social planning, and public administration. DUVA is characterized as a metadata-based data warehouse that enables the collection, management, and primarily table-based evaluation and analysis of municipal statistical data. KomMonitor serves as a municipal monitoring system, enabling the joint, explorative analysis of indicator-based time series data and geoinformation in charts and maps.
Hi, my name is Julia Rotert and from October 2025 to April 2026 I completed my external semester internship at 52°North. I grew up in Münster and am currently studying for my Master’s degree in Geoinformatics and Spatial Data Science at the University of Münster.
After completing my Bachelor’s degree in Applied Geodesy in Oldenburg, I returned to my home town and worked as a surveying engineer, focusing on geodata analysis and QGIS. During that time, my interest in geosoftware continuously increased. I wanted to deepen my understanding of software development and move from the user to the developer side of geospatial technologies.
Authors: Benedikt Gräler, Sebastian Drost
Die FOSSGIS Konferenz 2026, die wichtigste jährliche Veranstaltung für FOSS und Open Data im Bereich Geoinformation in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, fand am Institut für Geographie der Georg-August-Universität statt und verzeichnete mit ca. 1.300 TeilnehmerInnen einen beeindruckenden Besucherrekord. Das wissenschaftliche Programm umfasste zahlreiche Formate und Beiträge. Inhaltlich deckte die Konferenz ein breites Spektrum der Geo-IT ab, darunter quelloffene GIS-Software, die Bereitstellung und Nutzung offener Geodaten.