[OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread 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 (

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: For example, one of the requirements in the simple editor that I've been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast nearest way lookup. I imagine something like that could be written, documented, and demonstrated in one Summer. We've had

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: For example, one of the requirements in the simple editor that I've been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast nearest way lookup. I imagine something like that

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Stefan de Konink
Op 10-03-10 17:50, Tom Hughes schreef: Um... It's the Summer of CODE not the Summer of Writing Reports? Interestingly there were projects in the past such as the kornshell project mentored by Sun that actually was not about coding, but about management task to facilitate the placement of some

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 17:30, Steve Hosgood wrote: What you need is to generate a dirty-tiles list for every edit-session in the database and only display the edit-sessions whose dirty-tiles list includes tiles that you're looking at with slippy-map at that time. Obviously, this is a crude description

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Bernhard zwischenbrugger
Hi I have a project: If you have nothing else just copy/paste from snip to snap and correct my bad english. ---snip--- title: It's about zooming the browser maps... The javascript map library khtmlib is a free library to display maps in browsers. It has a simple API to display map tiles at

Re: [OSM-talk] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 21:14, Graham Jones wrote: 5. An interesting suggestion to improve the 'History' list, which would also help the rendering process - I liked the sound of this as this is one of the few suggestions for projects involving the 'core' of OSM. The reply suggested