GSoC Ideas

Welcome to pgRouting

So you are interested in becoming a Google Summer of Code student, This is great! but what should you do to improve your chances of being selected? We recommend reading THIS and THIS to start with.

• Remember to be proactive
• Pick a bug or ask for one and work on fixing it so you learn the product and development environment
• Discuss your ideas on the pgrouting-dev list
• The best GSoC idea is YOUR idea! something that you are really interested in developing.

pgRouting project related code:

• osm2pgrouting (C++)
• pgRouting (C++)
• pgroutingLayers for Qgis (python)

To give you an idea about possible pgRouting GSoC topics:

• Make pgRoutingLayarCompatible with the new version of QGIS (Python 3)
• Improve osm2pgrouting import tool for OpenStreetMap data
  • Write new code using libosmium.
  • C++
• Create a pgrouting2osm export tool so data can be moved to OSRM engine
  • currently there is no such tool!
• Multi-modal path planning (see https://github.com/Ifsttar/Tempus)
• Implement generic driving directions add-on to pgRouting
• Vehicle Routing Problem Algorithms
  • Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Trips
  • Truck & Trailer routing problem
  • Museum visitor routing problem
  • Capacitated location routing problem
  • Orienteering routing problem
  • Support for multiple capacities
  • Support for variable priorities (order, vehicle)
• Graph Algorithms
  • "Chinese Postman Problem"
  • Asymmetric TSP
  • C++ Boost graph algorithms(http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_0/libs/graph/doc/table_of_contents.html)
    • Set up the algorithms to be used with pgRouting
  • And many more that we don't have
• Continue work on Contraction Hierarchies

Other ideas? We are always interested in other ideas that potential students want to present. So please don't be shy, contact the pgrouting-dev mailing list and introduce yourself and your idea.

pgRouting's GSoC Mentors for Past years:

name	Mentor Years	Other
Stephen Woodbridge	2009~2014
Daniel Kastl	2009~2017
Vicky Vergara	2015~2017
Rohith Reddy	2017	GSoC-student 2016

Completed in prior years

See a list of projects on pgRouting's Google Summer of Code site.

How to get started

If you're interested, you you should introduce yourself and your project idea on the pgRouting Developer mailing list. Read our wiki pages for developers and debugging and ask for help if you get stuck.

pgRouting application requirements

Have experience with GitHub & Git

• Fork the repository
• Clone the repository

Create Issue on the fork:

Title of Issue: Get familiar with C++

Content of Issue:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eidEEmGLQcU
  • Make Report
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5senBJUkPc
  • Make Report
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk
  • Make Report
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A
  • Make Report
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqTKD8uD64
  • Make Report
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86xWVb4XIyE
  • Make Report

View the videos and make a report of each one

Create Issue on the fork:

Title of Issue: Get familiar with pgRouting on Github

• Start on develop branch
• Choose a Good first issue of pgRouting
• Propose the solution for the issue
• Submit a pull request to develop.

Note: The pull request might not be accepted, it is just for testing your skills using github and on reading/modifying/understanding the C++ code

Other information on the OSGeo Wiki. The GSoC 2012 Ideas page is outdated but still available.