Hi,<br>I agree that improving documentation would be a really useful contribution to OSM, but Google are quite explicit that this is outside of the scope of GSoC (<a href="http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#doc_proposals">http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#doc_proposals</a>).<br>
<br>A project along the lines of 'context sensitive help in OSM editors' could be a possibility though. I have never worked on one of the main editors, so I have no idea how hard this would be from that point of view. The Artifical Intelligence aspects are quite difficult in themselves though - it would have to try to guess what you would like to do from what you have just done - quite a challenge, but please add it to the list if you can manage to describe it!<br>
<br>Regards<br><br><br>Graham.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 March 2010 10:59, <a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">lets put it in a different perspective :<br><br>Make the documentation as part of the program!<br>
<br>I would like to see for example a help system that is integrated to the wiki,<br>Click on a tag, have it pull up the wiki entry, be able to add new unknown tags or rename them.<br>
We could even have an OWL Ontology created with a reasoning engine to specify rules for tagging.<br><br>Really, the software should be so good that you dont need docs or videos. <br><br>mike<div><div></div><div class="h5">
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pecisk@gmail.com" target="_blank">pecisk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>> GSoc<br>
> student pool is a very talented one - it would be good to use them for more<br>
> critical things. Of course, OSM unlike other projects is basically a<br>
> collection of tools maintained by various people, so difficult to achieve a<br>
> consensus.<br>
>><br>
<br>
</div>Having one place of knowhow of mapping is quite critical for project<br>
like OSM. And believe me, creating good documentation requires quite a<br>
skill and isn't easiest job in IT world as we would like to see.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Peter.<br>
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