[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC'10

[steve brown]

Hey

I'd like to say a quick hello! I've been involved with OSM as a data
contributor for a while (about a year and a half) and a developer for an
Android OSM SatNav for half a year or so.
With my background and experience (and love) for OSM I'm hoping to
participate this year in google summer of code, hopefully working on further
features and versions of the Android application (opensatnav.org). I've seen
that last year a participant developed an android client, but it seems to
have stagnated in the SVN - I'm quite against just leaving things like that
so whatever I do, you can be sure that it'll go live and keep being worked
upon. My 3rd year project at Warwick University is also further enhancements
to OpenSatNav, so I'm going to be contributing GSOC or not, but if I do get
on the programme I will have plenty more time to spend even more good stuff.

Anyway, I'll post my proposal up tomorrow after I've worked on it a little
more. I've been watching the dev mailing list and the wiki page for a few
weeks now, and would like to say a quick thankyou to Graham Jones - it looks
like you've put alot of work into the proposal! Hopefully it will pay off
and get some quality software developed by people (like me?)

Steve

2010/3/11 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>

> That is a great idea.
> What about making video as well, on how to use OSM/JOSM/Potlatch how to get
> started. Video Screencasts?
> mike
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> For one of OSM GSoC'10 projects I would like to suggest "unofficial
>> guide" for mapping. We all know that there is a little haos in tagging
>> (some says it's good, some says it bad), but so far biggest confusion
>> comes from not how to tag things, but how to tag complex situations or
>> how to even map complex situations (and that's without even taking
>> micro mapping into account).
>>
>> What we need is nice guide where is said - basic roads are maped like
>> this, crossroads created this way, this must be connected with that,
>> etc. It would also create a nice little base for futher experiments
>> and ideas. There's nothing wrong with seeking out alternative tags or
>> ways of mapping, but this at least should be documented somewhere.
>>
>> More or less everyone who would take this task would have to go trough
>> all archives, look for discusions and conlusions (and even if there is
>> no conlusion, writing down all sane opinions would help greatly) and
>> write it down in casual user manual style.
>>
>> Just a idea, but I think worth to explore,
>> cheers,
>> Peter.
>>
>> 2010/3/11 Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at googlemail.com>:
>>
>> > Mike.
>> > Thank you for your suggestion.
>> > I do not know where the apache licence ref comes from.  This year's
>> > application says GPL with a note saying some is PD.
>> >
>> > Graham
>> >
>> > On Mar 11, 2010 7:36 AM, "jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com"
>> > <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > My GSOC  suggestion :
>> >
>> > Get the potlatch running without any Adobe software, use gnash.
>> >
>> >
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Porting_of_Potlatch_to_use_FLOSS_tools_and_viewer
>> >
>> > Also why does google list OSM as being apache licensed?
>> > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/streetmap/about.html
>> > Preferred license: Apache License, 2.0
>> > Since when?
>> >
>> > I am putting all my new code under the affero GPL 3.0.
>> >
>> > mike
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Rajan Vaish <vaish.rajan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Thanks Graham, > >...
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> mortigi tempo
>> Pēteris Krišjānis
>>
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