Google Summer of Code 2026 is coming to a close for us and our students. We have all had a successful summer and we are delighted with their accomplishments!

Shashaank took on the challenge of building a QGIS plugin for the 52°North Weather Routing Tool (WRT). Although the WRT offers powerful functionality, its workflow can be complex. To make these capabilities more accessible and intuitive, the plugin replaces manual setup with a user-friendly GUI – streamlining the process into a seamless Configure → Visualize → Analyze workflow right within QGIS. Find out more in his blog post “From Manual Configuration to an Interactive GIS Workflow – My GSoC 2026 Journey” (Shashaank Srivastava)

Pranav embraced the challenge of creating 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. He details his work ins final blog post Building a Safe and Visual MCP Bridge for OGC APIs with 52°North (Pranav Angrish).

A heartfelt thanks to both of them for their hard work!

 

*OGC’s Ingos Simonis references Pranav’s introductory blog post in his opinion paper “Why AI-Readiness Is a Data Architecture Problem”.