[OSM-talk] GSoC 2012 Application

[Ishan Agrawal]

Hi all,

I had some ideas regarding this project. I am not sure who to and how to
approach for mentorship on this project.

*Games based on OSM data*
I wanted to work on a game idea that I have thought of which I call
"infectious". It focuses on real time movement of a person in a city. There
are two groups (for eg. disease and cure) and every person belongs to
either group. Whenever two people from different groups come in close
proximity they can convert the other guy into their own group. The person
who converts the most people wins or the whole group could win also. So
essentially the spread happens like a contact based virus would spread in a
community. Singapore is a great place to start this game too, since
Singapore has the highest smartphone density in the world, its small enough
to run country wide campaign in the game and 3G works even in underground
trains, and people usually play these games during daily commutes. I am
really excited to build this game using OSM data. I can build this on
OSMAnd using live tracking and Map viewing features of the app.

I would really like to discuss this further.

Regards,
Ishan Agrawal



On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Ishan Agrawal
<ishan.agrawal90 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am currently a Computer Science undergrad at National University of
> Singapore. I am really interested in collection and distribution of
> geo information and the cool applications that can be built on this
> geo data. I have worked on some projects on location based application
> and navigation systems. I am interested in exploring this further and
> thus I very interested in working on a OSM project for GSoC.
>
> These are the projects that I am interested in:
> 1) OSM Application for Android
> 2) Map for Visually Handicapped
> 3) Games based on OSM data
> 4) Friend Finder (Social Media Application Using OSM data)
> 5) Indoor Mapping and Navigation (i want to propose this project)
>
> I have done some relevant projects that are quite similar to these:
>
> 1) CorruptionTrak: It is a Android application I did for India, which
> helps people report cases of corruption and geotag the reports. The
> reports are displayed on a heat map of India and also on a live feed.
> We are now working with an NGO in India to act on these reports of
> corruption. I recently showcased this app at a competition at CeBIT12
> in Hanover, Germany and it was selected as the top 10 most innovative
> apps in 400 applications from 42 countries. There is also a web
> interface with an admin system to verify and approve reports.
>
> 2) I worked one year in RocketFuel, a online advertising Silicon
> Valley startup, developing their real-time bidding system, working on
> improving inefficiency and refactoring the code to make it more
> scalable for international expansion. I gained a lot of technical
> skills working there which have really helped me gain some practical
> programming experience.
>
> 3) A research project in my University on traffic and naivgation data
> analysis using Hadoop distributed programming. This project helped me
> realize the impact of improvements in traffic and navigation problems.
>
> 4) Currently I am researching under a professor at my University on
> Indoor Navigation and Mapping using just a Android phone without using
> external sensors. I am looking into the best ways to do it and found
> some interesting work being done at OSM on it on the wiki
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor). I am not sure how to
> contact the people working on it for mentorship and to see how best I
> can contribute to it. Also, would be ok if this project is not listed
> on the ideas page and I propose it?
>
> I have some interesting ideas for the projects on the Android App,
> Games on OSM data and the Map for Visually Handicapped project. Where
> can I discuss them and who would be the best person to talk to
> regarding these?
>
> Looking forward to an exciting summer coding and mapping!
>
> Regards,
> Ishan Agrawal
>
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