[OSM-newbies] [OSM-dev] GSoC'09

[rajan vaish]

Sounds cool !! so point 3 deleted,looking forward to work on point 1 or 2 (
in order of preference ) ,I really want to work on Accessibility issue and
make OSM one-stop choice for people who are visually impaired. Lots of big
companies are trying hard on it,as part of my informal proposal something
similar can be done .. Please have a look how AOL uses MapQuest for the same
here >
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?swf=http%3A//s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/cps-vfl82884.swf&video_id=Ya2U2-BcLsc&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//i2.ytimg.com/vi/Ya2U2-BcLsc/hqdefault.jpg&sk=h9-DunQ_TioVnjgh2N2KuvirI1_yoyMjC&cr=US#038;hl=en&fs=1&rel=0
I am still exploring and in fact meeting people with this disability to get
maximum feedback ,I visited the State Blind School here in Lucknow,India and
visited Dr. U.N. Sinha (a Prof at University of Lucknow,who is visually
impaired)  who has offered any help possible for the cause.
Thing is that we need to create the output of map query in text,such that it
solves the purpose and is readable by Screen Reader,which complies to W3C
.Making a voice tool will be waste of time and effort,so best is making use
of existing technologies and modifying OSM accordingly.
Looking forward to someone who can mentor me on this,so that can discuss
detailed issues and implementation framework ..
Second point/idea is also of my interest and looking for someone to mentor
the same too ..
Thank you,
Rajan
http://linkedin.com/in/rajanvaish


On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 13/03/2009, rajan vaish <vaish.rajan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am Rajan,a CS major from India.I interned online for One Laptop per
> Child
> > creating a Geography teaching tool using GeoRSS,MapServer and OpenLayers
> in
> > summer'08. I am really looking forward to participate and work for OSM
> this
> > year and there are few things of my interest on which I would like to
> work
> > .. 2 of which have already been posted .
> > 1-OSM for visually impaired (HTML header tags as per W3C guidelines can
> be
> > done and source-destination pair can be set,which result in
> > direction,something like MapQuest by AOL such that its very supportive to
> > Screen Readers like JAWS --- I am currently working on a research based
> > analysis of an Email client for visually impaired for ASSETS'09 mentored
> by
> > a Researcher from IBM ).
>
> This'd be good, afaik, nobody in the OSM community has yet done
> something like this.
>
> > 2-JOSM History Support .
>
> Has been lacking for several years now, visualisation of historical
> data is something that the project severly lacks.
>
> > 3-OSM/Slippy maps with Markers (i.e A window opens on clicking a
> particular
> > spot with more information - something implemented on OpenLayers using
> > GeoRSS and very common on Google maps ) .
>
> Very easily done with OpenLayers, so much existing work exists that
> it'd be pointless to do a GSoC on this.
>
> > I am a newbie but very fast learner ,it has been just sometime since I
> have
> > been browsing through OSM and really keen to work on it.
> > Looking forward to listen from interested mentors ,so that can discuss
> > further issues and design the implementation model for any of these 3
> ideas
> > mentioned. Thank you,
> > Rajan
> > http://linkedin.com/in/rajanvaish
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Thomas Wood
> (Edgemaster)
>
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