Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

2012-03-17 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Philipp, You are quite right - one of our shortcomings over the last couple of years has been in communication with the wider osm community and we should improve that this year. What we have had over the last couple of years is a private mailing list for mentors to discuss the proposals to make

Re: [OSM-dev] Willing to apply " Improve / Create Simple Android OSM editor" GSOC 2012 project

2012-03-17 Thread Graham Jones
Hi, I am glad you are managing to get started with editing OSM data. To work on an editor you will need to understand the OSM data structure (the data is transferred as XML files) - have a look at the OSM wiki to understand the xml file format. I also added some notes to the GSoC project ideas pa

[OSM-dev] Rendering of Cliffs using mapnik-cairo?

2012-03-17 Thread Graham Jones
Hi All, I am working on a service to allow people to create PDF maps of specific areas, with user selectable style features (things like a grid, contours, hillshading, GPX track overlay etc.). To try to get the best output I am using mapnik's cairo renderer. At the moment I am using the standard

Re: [OSM-dev] Willing to apply " Improve / Create Simple Android OSM editor" GSOC 2012 project

2012-03-17 Thread Janani Nayanathara
Thank you very much for your kind responces. As you toold, I made an account and did some edits to the map in my neighborhood. OpenStreetMap editor is a really great and interesting thing. I think I will be very joyful to work with OSM. I wrote a blog post to inform the other people who are not aw

Re: [OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

2012-03-17 Thread Janani Nayanathara
My congratulations to OpenStreetMap ! I am interested in and hoping to apply for the "Improve / Create Simple Android OSM editor" project as a student. I think this summer will be more interesting with OSM. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: > Well done!!! > > * Mikel Maron *

Re: [OSM-dev] Willing to apply OSM Application for Android GSOC project

2012-03-17 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Gihan De Silva wrote: > Hi, I saw there exists some OSM Android apps and, I want to know, are > there any OSM android app developed with HTML5? So there is not such app, > isn't that great to develop the app with HTML5. Because an app developed > with HTML5 can be

[OSM-dev] Willing to apply OSM Application for Android GSOC project

2012-03-17 Thread Gihan De Silva
Hi, I saw there exists some OSM Android apps and, I want to know, are there any OSM android app developed with HTML5? So there is not such app, isn't that great to develop the app with HTML5. Because an app developed with HTML5 can be run on any platform. If you can share your ideas that will be hi