[OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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.

One of the features (or maybe problems?) of GSoC is that it tends to 
bring people to OSM who have no prior OSM experience. If you come to OSM 
from the outside, getting to the point where you can add an API call 
within a few hours might well take one summer ;-)

Bye
Frederik