[OSM-dev] Gsoc 2010 project idea

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Dear Amit,

This looks like a good idea !

Could maybe GeoChat (http://geochat.instedd.org/) be of help for the 
geolocalized SMS part ?

If yes, they are planning to get working on a new version soon 
(http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geochatUsers/message/62)

You might want to let them know about what would be useful for your 
project :
http://geochat.uservoice.com/forums/7328-geochat-feedback-forum

Best wishes,

Jean-Guilhem


amit singh a écrit :
> Re: I attached a sample java project to my previos mail .since it 
> exceeded the size limit its waiting for moderator's approval . In the 
> mean time I'm posting again without the attachment
>
> Sir,
>
> The IDEA :
> How many times have we called our friends, relatives or colleagues,etc 
> to know their whereabouts while waiting for them to arrive at the 
> decided meeting point. This is after we took big pain in deciding the 
> meeting place. The solution to this problem is what I would like to 
> take up as project.
>
> The PROPOSAL :
> I would also like to propose a routing project which would allow user 
> to find a suitable path and if used with a gps device it will take 
> user's desination as input to show the path(updated as he moves). Also 
> the time of journey(estimated using various factors) will be updated 
> taking his current speed of movement into account. The ( intelligent 
> ) application will ,in addition, also have a group connect feature 
> which will allow various users to find a suitable meeting point ( 
> mall, park, restaurant, etc depending on user choice) and will suggest 
> the group members detailed plans of travel depending on time of 
> meeting. It will show the real-time location and estimated arrival 
> time ( speed of the user will be taken into account ) once the user 
> embarks on the journey[privacy feature can be added if required]. 
> Every user will be alerted at the appropriate time they should depart 
> , also other will be notified once he has arrived the meeting point. 
>
> The application can be developed as both standalone desktop app or 
> web-browser based. I wish to use java for it as I have already worked 
> on one very basic map application which has basic feature of geocoding 
> and reverse-geocoding along with weather info search and wikipedia 
> search, user can store temp record of a place for future references 
> and also store his favorite place. 
>
> The IMPLEMENTATION :
> The routing algorithm will be developed so as to take very less 
> resources , requiring only as much data (nodes) as necessary ,ie 
> before path finding I would use a node selection algo to reduce time 
> to compute the path. Once the path has been calculated we don't find 
> it again(only repaint it by changing the starting point ) until user 
> deviates from it. Every update in the user's position can be sent to 
> the server using Xml ,which produces an update in the groups database 
> which in turn issues an update to  other group members using the 
> application concurrently.
>
> -Amit Singh
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