GSoC 2026: Valhalla Pedestrian Routing - Still open?

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Hi everyone,

I’m Aditya, an IT student interested in the Valhalla - Enhance Pedestrian Routing GSoC project. My background is entirely in C++ Competitive Programming (LeetCode Knight, Codeforces Specialist). I am highly comfortable with standard graph traversals (BFS, DFS, Dijkstra) and writing efficient C++ code under strict time and space complexities.

I am currently building Valhalla from source locally. Given the tight deadline, I wanted to ask the project mentors (Kevin, Nils, or Christian):

  1. Are you still accepting new proposals for this project?

  2. Which specific C++ files should I study first to understand the pedestrian attribution logic?

Thanks!

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Proposal submission is open until March 31st, as for every prospective GSOC student.

Please be aware that we expect that students have made a small contribution to the project so that mentors can assess their (human) ability to work with code and in a team. I recommend you get in touch with the Valhalla devs via the email provided in the wiki. Be aware that it may take a few days to get an answer. In the meantime look through the issue tracker and see what is going there.

For Valhalla specifically, you should also read their guidelines.

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