Meet the 52°North Fire Saftey Squad!
Staff members recently underwent fire safety training. During a refresher course, Jan, Ann, Benni, Conny und Simon updated their fire saftey skills, successfully completing recertification. The training session involved a review of emergency fire procedures and hands-on practice with various types of fire extinguishers.
Hi everyone,
I am Pranav Angrish, a final-year Computer Science and Engineering student from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. This summer, I am excited to be working with 52°North as part of Google Summer of Code 2026 on the project MCP for OGC APIs: Developing Model Context Protocols for the Suite of OGC APIs.
The project sits at an intersection I find deeply interesting: open geospatial standards, intelligent software agents, and making complex technical systems easier for people to use. Over the next few months, I will be working on a bridge between OGC APIs and the Model Context Protocol, so that large language models can interact with geospatial services through well-defined, structured tools instead of brittle ad-hoc API calls.
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.