Dear all!
I am new to the developers list so lemme first introduce myself.
My name is Yarik. I am 24. Study Digital Media at HS Bremen /
Bremerhaven. The main topic of my studies are location based
mobile games (like Foursquare). Currently I am writing my thesis
about landmark identification using these sort of games.
I am considering myself more of a programmer, therefore
development of osm interests me for quite a long time. But SoC
actually did the magic kick and led me to the page with
implementation ideas.
Checking those ideas out I have found an idea to "Develop a
Simple Mapping Tool for Mobile Phones". Mostly because of rich
previous experience, I find it very interesting and would love
to work on a tool like that within our outside of the SoC.
Unfortunately I'm a newbie to osm and therefore I cannot judge
myself the importance of this sort of tool for the osm
community. Do we really need it? I have seen similar efforts
from the last SoC.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/AcceptedProjects/AndroidPOICollector
Did they fail? Does it need to be further developed?
I have also seen several other tools with similar functionality.
How do you think does it make sense to keep up with the
investigation of those and submitting the solution idea?
Thanks
Yarik
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