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Understanding Student Allocation Via Maps

Mapping intern allocation

As part of the German teacher training program, students must complete an internship of several months at a school. The positions available at the schools are distributed through a common system for North Rhine-Westaflia, but are managed regionally by PVP (Portal zur Vergabe von Praktikumsplätzen – Portal for the Allocation of Internship Positions). In order to optimize the allocation process, the parties involved asked for a map-based system that would allow them to evaluate the distribution of students to schools. This web-based map client (PVP-Map) has been developed by Reedu GmbH & Co. KG. in close cooperation with 52°North in a co-design process with users and stakeholders. 52°North will maintain and operate the application for three years.

 

Reference points colored according to schools and railways in North Rhine-Westphalia from the PVP-Map tool

Customer

University of Münster, ZFL, Germany

GeoNode Consulting for IStG

GeoNode Consulting for IStG

GeoNode for Historical Survey Maps

Unlocking the potential of historical geodata management

The IStG (Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte) approached 52°North with a request for assistance in setting up a geodata management platform based on GeoNode. In close collaboration with the IStG, 52°North analyzed the existing geodata architecture, identified, discussed and documented the geodata management requirements for their HiSMaComp research project. The overall goal was to assist the IStG in identifying a solution for managing historical geospatial data and to lay the groundwork for implementing this solution in the near future. Geospatial data in this case includes both raster and vector data as well as reference data. In addition to the actual data, the corresponding metadata also needed be managed.

After an initial setup and deployment, 52°North supported the data loading phase. IStG has already identified a number of interesting use cases that could be developed in the near future using the geodata management platform. For example, a fine-grained search mechanism at the dataset level could help researchers to identify datasets of interest. Side-by-side data visualizations have been identified as an interesting way to visualize historical changes in cities over the centuries.

 

IStG’s geodata management platform

Customer

Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte (IStG), Germany