Hi Daniel,
thanks for your interest in the OpenStreetMap GSoC.
From the projects that you have listed, we have moved the one about
3D mapping features to an 'incubator' state meaning that the idea still
needs more work to be shaped into a full GSoC project proposal and that
you should actively search for a mentor.
The other three suggestions are equally useful and you should try to find
the project that matches best your skills and interest. The projects are
quite different each.
The iD projects are good if you like Javascript and web development.
I can't give you details about the project itself. Brian Housel can
talk about the details.
The Nominatim Wikidata project is more focused on databases and data
processing. Essentially it is about extracting helpful information
from the wikidata database and integrating it into the Nominatim
database and using it to improve the search results. Find out what
exactly is 'helpful' is a big part of the project. So you should like
data analysis and writing scripts for processing large amout of data.
The search suggestion project has a bit of both. photon is an
elastic search based frontend for Nominatim, which should be tuned
for the specific purpose of providing suggestions for the search box
on openstreetmap.org. Here som Java skills are essential and it
would help if you have heard of Elastic Search previously. Some
basic web programming skills for the integration into the website
are also useful.
I hope that helps a bit better to decide what you think suits you
best. For the Nominatim projects I'm happy to answer further
questions.
Kind regards
Sarah
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:01:27PM -0400, Daniel Wu wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code this year and
> working on a project with OpenStreetMap. I would like to either work with
> the iD editor or with Nominatim. I looked at the project suggestions for
> this year and there are some that interest me and I would like to know what
> others think about these projects.
>
> For Nominatim, one project is to add Wikidata or other data to improve the
> importance ranking for Nominatim and another is to add search suggestions
> for OSM while you type. (
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Project_Ideas#Nominatim)For
> iD, I am interested in one project suggestion to integrate a task manager
> into iD and another project suggestion to create a new panel in iD to
> select select building color, roof color and roof shape and orientation. (
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019/Project_Ideas#iD_Editor
> ).
>
> I would like to know which project you think would be most useful and any
> other opinions you have related to these projects.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
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> B.S. Computer Science
> B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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