[OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

[Tom Hughes]

On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote:

> For example, one of the requirements in the "simple editor" that I've
> been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast
> "nearest way" lookup. I imagine something like that could be written,
> documented, and demonstrated in one Summer.

We've had lots of projects in previous years that were written, 
documented and demonstrated. Then they sat in svn slowly rotting for 
evermore...

I'm not quite sure what you're actually suggesting here - if you're 
talking about a new API call for the rails port to return the nearest 
way to a point then that is certainly not a big enough project to be 
GSOC worthy - it's little more than a few hours work.

> How about we ask a student to conduct a UX review (sit down with random
> people and have them interact with OSM and observe) and write a report?

Um... It's the Summer of CODE not the Summer of Writing Reports?

Tom

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