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Developing Model Context Protocols for the Suite of OGC APIs

June 3, 2026 by Pranav Angrish Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, GSoC Tagged With: 52°North, AI Agents, geospatial, Google Summer of Code, GSoC 2026, interoperability, MCP, Model Context Protocol, OGC API, OGC Standards, Open Source, Web APIs

Introducing My GSoC 2026 Project with 52°North: MCP for OGC APIs

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.

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Making Weather Routing More Accessible with a QGIS Plugin

June 2, 2026 by Shashaank Srivastava Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, GSoC Tagged With: Geospatial Software, Google Summer of Code, GSoC 2026, PyQt, QGIS, visualization, Weather Routing Tool

Introduction

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.

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Interfacing KomMonitor and DUVA

May 21, 2026 by Sebastian Drost Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, KomMonitor Tagged With: communities, DUVA, information management, Informationsmanagement, KomMonitor, kommunale Daten, municipal data, Sozialraummonitoring, urban monitoring

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.

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From User to Developer Perspective: My internship at 52°North

May 20, 2026 by Julia Rotert Leave a Comment

Filed Under: 52°North, Communities, Student Internship Tagged With: MQTT, Open Pioneer Trails, OpenLayers, Pegelonline, PEOPLE-ECCO, PyQGIS, PyQt, QPegel

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.

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