On 13/03/2009, rajan vaish <vaish.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am Rajan,a CS major from India.I interned online for One Laptop per Child > creating a Geography teaching tool using GeoRSS,MapServer and OpenLayers in > summer'08. I am really looking forward to participate and work for OSM this > year and there are few things of my interest on which I would like to work > .. 2 of which have already been posted . > 1-OSM for visually impaired (HTML header tags as per W3C guidelines can be > done and source-destination pair can be set,which result in > direction,something like MapQuest by AOL such that its very supportive to > Screen Readers like JAWS --- I am currently working on a research based > analysis of an Email client for visually impaired for ASSETS'09 mentored by > a Researcher from IBM ).
This'd be good, afaik, nobody in the OSM community has yet done something like this. > 2-JOSM History Support . Has been lacking for several years now, visualisation of historical data is something that the project severly lacks. > 3-OSM/Slippy maps with Markers (i.e A window opens on clicking a particular > spot with more information - something implemented on OpenLayers using > GeoRSS and very common on Google maps ) . Very easily done with OpenLayers, so much existing work exists that it'd be pointless to do a GSoC on this. > I am a newbie but very fast learner ,it has been just sometime since I have > been browsing through OSM and really keen to work on it. > Looking forward to listen from interested mentors ,so that can discuss > further issues and design the implementation model for any of these 3 ideas > mentioned. Thank you, > Rajan > http://linkedin.com/in/rajanvaish > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
