[OSM-talk] Request for help: libosmscout

[Tim Teulings]

Hello!

I'm still looking for people interested in helping me with further 
development libosmscout (http://libosmscout.sf.net). The library 
steadily improves, but more people could simply get more work done 
faster ;-)

libosmscout is a C++ library, that implements offline map drawing and 
routing based on OSM data. It does this by import an existing *.osm file 
and generating a binary, plattform independent file based database and 
offering an high level API on top of this database.

The main target group of the library are people that are interested in 
developing applications based on OSM and that do not want to directly 
access available data using existing online APIs. Such applications of 
course also include offline navigation software but of course other, 
more specialized applications are possible.

Recent discussions with interested people however have shown that 
libosmscout has a much broader target group. Since the library consists 
of separate components for import, dataaccess, routing and map drawing, 
other usage senarios are also possible and I'm also looking for people 
that want to improve libosmscout in that direction:

* Generating stylable (paper) maps
* Using it as a small desktop local caching tile server with very light 
infrastructure requirements.
* Using it to tests and compare different routing alogrithm (that can 
share pre- and postprocessing and thus safe the developer the hassle to 
fiddle around with *.osm file format and generating a good textual 
routing description).
* Use the internal data structures and map drawing for online-data API 
based map drawing
* Statistical analysis and data test suite

libosmscout currently depends on libxml and libcairo (, but even that 
could be abstracted ;-)) and thus should work on various platforms.

If you are interested take a look at libosmscout.sf.net for further 
details (and a video) or simply contact me.

-- 
Gruß...
        Tim