Very ambitious indeed! I don't have much to comment on at the moment, but I would suggest you do a thorough review of existing FOSS Android apps which use OSM, as I know there are a quite a few. Many of them seem to be simple map viewers, but I imagine some of them have more complex features. Bonus points if you write a summary on the wiki. :)
Good luck, -Josh On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Achintya Prakash <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everyone, awesome to see you guys selected for GSoC 2011!! > > My name is Achintya Prakash and I'm a third year undergraduate student of > Computer Science, based in India. > I've been involved with android development for well past 3 months now, and > have dabbled in a lot of different aspects of it. Recently, I had the > fortune of being chosen to attend a Design and Innovation workshop held by > people from the MIT Media Labs, where amongst other things > like efficient storyboarding/designing/brainstorming techniques, they also > gave tutorials on android development. > > I'm also a student of an android development course in my college, and I > must say, its more fun than I would have ever thought!! > That's a bit of background about me, but the real thing is that I would > love to work as a student for your organisation on something related to > android. > > I recently submitted, as my mid semester 'mini' project, the outline for an > application that would give reminders not only based on time, but also > location (the inspiration behind this was the fact that I would drive around > town and always pass the places where I had to pick up something without > noticing. Having a simple timed reminder didn't always help, since I > couldn't really know the time at which I would be in the locality!) > > After I gave the skeleton of the app, my teacher gave me a few suggestions > to make it more useful, so I wanted to propose an idea for a project. This > project closely parallels your idea for "Develop a simple mapping tool for > mobile phones", although the functionalities I have mentioned go further in > scope than the GSoC timeline (since I plan to keep contributing to this > idea). I would love to work on a project like this, and hence *would like > to work on developing the simple mapping tool for phones* as a > part/component of this extended project. > > App name: Effective route tracing and recording > > Functionality: A passive route logging tool for android phones. The basic > ideology is that the route traversed by a single person should be > remembered/logged if required for later reference, without any active input > being given by the concerned person. A visual representation such as > overlays presented on a map/ values of latitude and longitude/ a more human > friendly address name( as decoded via geocoder) and intelligent direction > sensor ( turn left on Abbey Road, or something along those lines) be the > desired output. A number of added functionalities should be incorporated: > > 1. The ability to 'record' a route as a person is moving. > > 2. The ability to transfer a pre-recorded route via a multitude of ways, > including through sms (the easiest way would be through a series of > latitude/longitude, arranged in an appropriate format that could be read by > the application and translated as overlays on a map, or some other visual > representation), via wifi, bluetooth etc (could have an intelligent sensing > to see the most efficient method based on a certain criteria, hence giving > the user freedom from having to choose). > > 3. The ability to run real time route transfer ( especially useful in cases > where you have a lot of people following each other in cars, where only one > person knows the way). The 'master' phone would logging at predefined > intervals and sending over the information to the 'slave' phones, which > would automatically display the visual representation. > > 4.The ability to add user information to the route-points. Especially > useful in cases where a pre-recorded route is being sent, user input could > include textual or pictorial messages ( example, if giving directions, you > may include a picture of a well know nearby landmark, or just any structure > and include text references like 'take left here'.) Drawable attributes like > being able to scribble, draw arrows, circles etc on the sent information > should also be included. > > These are the initial proposed functionalities that I would think would > make the application extremely useful in a lot of situations. Alternatively, > there are a number of better improvements that can further be done: > > 1. To have the route synced with local traffic/ news updates, hence be > alerted in real time if the route is congested or under repair. > > 2. Have an intelligent route sensing system that could, based on machine > learning and frequent routes travelled, suggest alternatives/status updates > of the routes. (Example, if a person travels via the same route to office > everyday, or something) > > 3. Have different 'modes' of route sensing (example: vacation mode would > be able to sync to useful API's and retrieve information of relevance to > you about the nearby locality, like bars. restaurants, hotels etc and > display them, in an interactive manner, like having a map overlay showing a > connecting line between your position and the destination, the distance, > maybe even recent tweets/reviews about the place.) > > Alternatively I was thinking of making an API to provide > generic functionalities including the ones above, but again...advice and > feedback would be nice. > > This is an informal first draft that I'm proposing. I know it sounds > ambitious, and I don't propose the whole thing for the GSoC time line, but > plan to keep contributing further to it. I have to work out the finer > details about it. However, I do plan to take this up as my semester project, > which means that I would start working on it very soon, and I would love to > be able to develop it further. > > I would love your feedback on this. If you could give me some advice on how > to get started, that would be brilliant. I really am keen to hone my android > skills. > > Waiting for your feedback. :) This is the initial draft, and I would love > to work thing out more. > > Thank you, > > > Achintya Prakash > Junior > BITS-Pilani > Department of Computer Science > Signature powered by > <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=footer> > WiseStamp<http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=footer> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > >
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