[OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

[Karl Guggisberg]

Hi,

regarding JOSM the following would be interesting:

* graphical visualization of object history
    JOSM currently provides a very simple and crude view on an objects 
history. A graphical visualization would provide a more intuitive view
    on an objects history and the evolution of its key attributes on a 
timeline:
       - the objects "weight", how it grew and shrinked in the past 
(with respect to number of tags or number of children like nodes and 
relation members)
       - the objects "churn", i.e. how often and when it was modified
       - the objects "ownership",  i.e. who was editing the object
    A "watch list" for interesting objects (i.e. large relations) would 
be interesting too.

* user interface for reverting individual objects to a previous version
* user interface for reverting a changeset (similar to what the perl 
scripts currently do, but with a nice user interface)
* next generation support for resolving conflicts:
       - classify conflicts according to "type of conflict" (state 
conflict, tag conflict, position conflict, etc.)
       - classify conflicts according to "severity"
       - visualization and manipulation of these conflict classes
       - provide functionality to select and resolve batches of 
conflicts with a certain type and a certain severity

* detecting, visualizing and resolving "map anomalies"
    see http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/4509#comment:12

Regards
Karl


Am 10.03.2010 09:52, schrieb Graham Jones:
> Hi Folks,
>
> We have submitted an application for OSM to participate in this year's 
> Google Summer of Code, so next week the people from Google will be 
> reviewing the application and our project ideas list to chose which 
> organisations to include in the programme.
>
> Looking at the project ideas list 
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010) I am a 
> bit surprised that there are no suggestions for student projects on 
> the 'core' OSM databases.  The things I wondered are:
>
>     * Are there any areas for development of API version 0.7 that
>       could be turned into a project for someone to work on?
>     * Would it be worth working on the XAPI server?  We had trouble
>       last year with them being down, so I wondered if it would be
>       worth developing a more 'conventional' postgresql version of the
>       server that we could start-up easily if the others fail again? 
>       I started to look at this at the time, but didn't get far
>       because I got tied up in regular expressions rather than writing
>       a parser myself.....
>     * Without wanting to re-open the acrimonious debate again, could
>       we turn development of the OSM web site into a project? (would
>       have to check the GSoC rules for this, because there might not
>       be much 'code' involved).
>     * How about the main editors - JOSM and Potlatch - are there any
>       potential projects there?
>
> Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki 
> page!   If you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will do 
> and I will add it.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Graham.
>
> -- 
> Graham Jones
> Hartlepool, UK
> email: grahamjones139 at gmail.com <mailto:grahamjones139 at gmail.com>
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