Hello everyone! This year I want to participate in Google's Summer of code for OSM, and here I propose (or, better yet, develop upon) an idea of Android application, designed specifically for gathering OSM-related data. Ideally, it would be a XXI-century Field Papers map, without the need to print and scan anything and with ability to draw anything by hand, place markers, photos, and so on. The project proposal is mostly based on Ilya Zverev's idea <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Project_Ideas#Surveying_application>from wiki, so I hope he could be a mentor if the project gets accepted.
In more details, the features would include: * Track recording (with background recording supported). * Placing of markers (like "this is a restaurant"), text notes, audio notes, photo notes, all with millisecond precision. Current apps that allow note recording have a second precision, which make them unreliable at high speed (e.g. travelling at 150km/h you make 41 meter per second). Speech recognition (built into Android) can be used to convert audio notes into text as well. * Ability to upload this data in mapper-friendly (not simply traveller-friendly as GPX) format to a remote server, from where it could be retrieved e.g. by JOSM. Much like gpsies.com, probably with ability to share, did not think hard on this point, but with all notes and metadata preserved. * As a second milestone, a fully-fledged "Field Papers" on a tablet is proposed. With the ability to draw anything on the map by hand, stylus, whatever - the background map being shown on an Android device - and to upload edits made to the server, or to a desktop computer directly into JOSM. As for code, some of it may be based on already-existing OsmTracker for Android, but OsmTracker lacks many features proposed here, e.g. subsecond precision, voice recognition, uploads in a OSMer-centric format, and walking papers functionality. This is actually a sketch of official proposal to GSoC and I hope anyone of OSM community who is interested will comment and help make a better project proposal. Best wishes, Pavel P.S. I guess a proposal should contain some info about myself as well. I am now doing a Ph.D in geoinformatics, and my hobby is mobile developing (who would guess)). I am an occasional osm mapper<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pavel%20Melnikov>, and my humble contributions to osm projects were RSS history filtering web-app <http://positron96.appspot.com/osmfilter.html> (code <https://code.google.com/p/openstreetmaps-rss-geofilter/>in Java), changeset viewer <http://positron96.appspot.com/> (early in alpha, suspended) and a Local transport and traffic map <https://bitbucket.org/positron96/androsm> for Android (Not really an OSM project, but is based on OSM tiles. I mostly use it myself and find it very useful=)
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