Hi Jon Franco, My advice is quite similar to Richard's. If I were you I would first think about what you have been taught, and what you would like to practice as part of your project. Most importantly you need to be clear what your university expects you to demonstrate as part of the project.
Once you know what you need to do, and the sort of things you would like to work on, you could look at which bits of OSM, or OSM related projects would best be suited to you. You may already know, but over the last few years OSM has participated as a mentoring organisation in Google Summer of Code. We will probably apply this year too if you are interested. Part of the application process is to develop a project ideas list, which may be helpful for you - last year's is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2011. There is also a more general research / projects page here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Student_projects. You will see from this list that we have struggled in the past to find suitably challenging stand-alone projects relating to the core OSM infrastructure, so the projects have tended to be on related projects. The other difficulty has been an apparent reluctance of applicants to work on an existing project - they have often wanted to start from scratch. While this is useful from their perspective in starting the overall design process, it means the project is bound to not develop to a finished product in the time available. A very useful skill is to be able to pick up work started by others and develop it, so I would encourage you to think about that if that would work as far as your final year project requirements are concerned. Hope that helps to get you thinking. I would echo Richard's suggestion of posting to the mailing list rather than an individual - you may get other people thinking and making suggestions. Regards Graham. -- Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK.
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