[OSM-newbies] Final year project

[john whelan]

So something along the lines of find the direction and distance of one or
more transmitters?

That would involve identifying the lat long of the receiver and transmitter.

Use a local copy of the OSM file it's in XML format.  I'd probably use
Visual Basic only because of the debug tools plus I have some sample code.
You need to identify the tags on the transmitter but there should be
algorithms around that can work out distances etc.

If you have contour data available you could take that into account.
Usefulness well in Canada we now have digital TV rather thanpay for cable
but its difficult for an end user to find the transmitters.

Cheerio John

On 15 February 2012 14:03, Jon Franco Casamitjana <jfranki at live.com> wrote:

>  Thank you for answering Richard and Graham. You both said that I should
> post my questions somewhere else where anybody could read them and make
> suggestions, what do you mean? I thought this "newbies" mailing list would
> be OK...
>
> For my final project I was thinking of something from scratch, something
> specific that I could do alone by myself (with some help of course),  and
> with relatively no time limit. I think that they would consider allowing me
> to work on an existing project too, but I'd rather go with the first
> option. I have no experience in OSM, but I have time and I look forward to
> digging into it. I do have experience in programming with C, C++ and Java,
> and I would like to work on a project related to the telematic area of OSM
> if possible...
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
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