Hi All, I am currently a Computer Science undergrad at National University of Singapore. I am really interested in collection and distribution of geo information and the cool applications that can be built on this geo data. I have worked on some projects on location based application and navigation systems. I am interested in exploring this further and thus I very interested in working on a OSM project for GSoC.
These are the projects that I am interested in: 1) OSM Application for Android 2) Map for Visually Handicapped 3) Games based on OSM data 4) Friend Finder (Social Media Application Using OSM data) 5) Indoor Mapping and Navigation (i want to propose this project) I have done some relevant projects that are quite similar to these: 1) CorruptionTrak: It is a Android application I did for India, which helps people report cases of corruption and geotag the reports. The reports are displayed on a heat map of India and also on a live feed. We are now working with an NGO in India to act on these reports of corruption. I recently showcased this app at a competition at CeBIT12 in Hanover, Germany and it was selected as the top 10 most innovative apps in 400 applications from 42 countries. There is also a web interface with an admin system to verify and approve reports. 2) I worked one year in RocketFuel, a online advertising Silicon Valley startup, developing their real-time bidding system, working on improving inefficiency and refactoring the code to make it more scalable for international expansion. I gained a lot of technical skills working there which have really helped me gain some practical programming experience. 3) A research project in my University on traffic and naivgation data analysis using Hadoop distributed programming. This project helped me realize the impact of improvements in traffic and navigation problems. 4) Currently I am researching under a professor at my University on Indoor Navigation and Mapping using just a Android phone without using external sensors. I am looking into the best ways to do it and found some interesting work being done at OSM on it on the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor). I am not sure how to contact the people working on it for mentorship and to see how best I can contribute to it. Also, would be ok if this project is not listed on the ideas page and I propose it? I have some interesting ideas for the projects on the Android App, Games on OSM data and the Map for Visually Handicapped project. Where can I discuss them and who would be the best person to talk to regarding these? Looking forward to an exciting summer coding and mapping! Regards, Ishan Agrawal _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
