[pgrouting-dev] Congratulation to our two GSoC students for pgRouting

[Stephen Woodbridge]

We are very pleased to have had two projects accepted for GSoC this year.

The full list of 22 OSGeo accepted students is here:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/osgeo

Razequl was my student last year and and we are very happy to have him 
back making some additional contributions this year. Daniel will be his 
mentor and I will co-mentor. Razequl will be working on a VRP solution 
focused on scheduling and optimizing multiple vehicles and delivery 
routes. You can read up on his project from the link above.

Mukul is new to pgRouting this year, and he will be working on another 
exciting problem of partitioning a graph and dynamically loading parts 
of the graph as needed. This has significant implication in a lot of 
areas because graphs would not need to be preloaded using this technique 
and we would only need to load smaller subset of the graph needed to 
solve the problem. One application of this is would be doing something 
like a diagonal route across the US. Today we have to load all the data 
for the US into one gigantic graph, but with this approach we would only 
need to load a small boundary around the actual route. Read more about 
Mukul's project at the link above. I will be the mentor for this project 
and Daniel will co-mentor.

Please give a warm welcome to both Razequl and Mukul. I encourage you to 
be part of our community and use the user or dev list for questions so 
we can all support you and others can learn for the responses to your 
questions.

I look forward to working with both of you this year and hopefully in 
the future.

Congratulations and best regards,
   -Steve