[OSM-talk] Ideas for student project on OSM

[Sascha Silbe]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:38:05PM +0000, James Stewart wrote:

> Hi, I am a contributor to the map,but also work in the University in  
> Edinburgh. I have been talking to the people who run the MSc in GIS,  
> they have 140 students, and have to propose potential dissertation  
> projects.
> Most of the students work on the technology side,  programming and 
> developing tools.
> Has any one got any ideas of the  sorts of work that could be 
> done/needs to  be done for the OSM project  that a post grad student 
> could work?
Just a few random ideas:

- generate "places" tree (i.e. Continent -> Country -> State -> District 
-> City etc.)
   - Bonus: house numbering
- layering: use several OSM API instances to store (different types of) 
data (e.g. main API + phone numbers/contact information)
   - add layering support to JOSM
   - CLI tool for accumulating information from different API instances
   - CLI tool for splitting and feeding information into different API 
instances
- relation editing:
   - add modular / easily extensible "special purpose" relation editors 
to JOSM
     - Turn restrictions
     - Bus routes
     - Collected ways
     - ...

CU Sascha

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