^2013-05-21

enviroCar - make your city smarter

52°North's and ifgi's enviroCar project went public at last week's Geotag Münsterland 2013. More than 300 participants from the Münsterland region gathered to present and discuss new technologies and concepts for Smart Cities. With the start of its crowd funding campaign, enviroCar invites the public to become citizen scientists and share car sensor data to better understand the effects of one's own driving on one's own environment and thus make the world a little smarter, traffic less stressful, and economic driving more fun!

^2013-05-15

The Geoprocessing Community announces a new Web Processing Service maintenance release! The WPS 3.1.1 contains several bugfixes and a few improvements:

• Fixed issue with WPS4R
• Enabled DescribeProcess via pox and fixed some compliance issues
• Switched off excessive http logging
• Improved tests
• FlatFileDatabase improvements.

Download the new release here.

_2013-04-15

The 52°North Bridge Warning System - a 52°North and con terra collaboration - goes on tour with the FME World Tour 2013.  This exciting FME Server-based prototype collects sensor data and sends notifications to ensure safe passage under bridges.

_2013-04-09

For the second year in a row, 52°North has been chosen from a pool of 417 applications to be one of 177 open source projects to participate as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code 2013. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects. Stipend recipients receive $ 5.000 for 3 months of software development.

^2013-04-05

52°North is pleased to announce the winners of the 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics 2012!

• Peter Broßeit from the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany has been awarded the 52°North Student Innovation Prize 2012 and
• Gerard Casas Saez from Barcelona’s Santa Teresa de Lisieux School in Spain has been awarded the 52°North Innovation Incentive Award.