Ann Hitchcock, Autor auf 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

March 10, 2020

Cos4Cloud

A European project to revolutionize the technology of citizen science

The European Union promotes Cos4Cloud, an ambitious project that will create cutting-edge technology services to improve citizen science platforms. Among other services, it will include integrating observations from different citizen science platforms into a portal, artificial intelligence tools that help citizens recognize species when they send an observation, and standardized data from different platforms. These technological services will be available in the new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), so that each new or existing project will be able to choose and install the ones it needs and improve its functionalities.more >

February 21, 2020

Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization

52°North selected as Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization

For its 9th year in a row, 52°North has been chosen as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code 2020! The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects.

Students who have been accepted are paired with 52°North mentors, thus gaining valuable exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, 52°North is able to more easily identify and draw in new developers, as well as improve or extend software projects.

52°North has a number of project ideas. The overall goals are to improve usability of products and to extend the user base to new domains. Students interested in writing code can find more information at at our GSoC page. Student Application opens open March 16, 2020.

Contact Arne de Wall () and Benjamin Pross ()

February 5, 2020

52°North annual retreat February 6 – 8, 2020

52N Days 2020

This year’s retreat takes place in Papenburg! 52°North staff meets to discuss and define road maps and strategies for 2020.

Our offices woll be closed for the duration. If you want to contact us, please do so via email.

January 24, 2020

New ILWIS 3.8.6 release

Restored and stabilized functionality in ILWIS 3.8.6

The ILWIS team announces a new version of the modular PC-based GIS & Remote Sensing software ILWIS. ILWIS 3 integrates image, vector and thematic data processing functionalities in one unique and powerful desktop package.

ILWIS 3.8.6 was released on January 22, 2020 and provides some new functionality. More importantly, it restores pre version 3.8. functionality that wasn’t included when the map-rendering system was rewritten to use OpenGL. The Segment Map Editor, the MapView and the Georeference Tiepoints, among others, now work again. In addition, there is improved stability in a large number of functions that were added between ILWIS 3.7 and ILWIS 3.8.5.

See the changelog for details.