[OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> 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.


The point I was trying to make was to break down big projects into smaller
more manageable pieces and to bring those up as suggestions rather than
saying something like "let's not do GSoC because we only have ideas for huge
projects."
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