Re: [OSM-dev] Summer of Code 2011 Ideas

2011-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Zhijie, Thank you for your interest in applying! Our ideas page is just that - ideas, so please add yours too. When you come to apply it would be good for you to point out what your proposal will do differently to existing tools, and explain if you propose to build on an existing tool or start

Re: [OSM-dev] Summer of Code 2011 Ideas

2011-03-10 Thread Zhijie Shen
Hi all, I'm a student from National University of Singapore, and interested in applying GSoC'11. I checked the idea list of last year and found one: " Develop a Simple Mapping Tool for Mobile Phones Many mobile phones contain cameras, microphones and GPS receivers so it is possible to take geotag

Re: [OSM-dev] Summer of Code 2011 Ideas

2011-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Ian, I have added a couple of ideas - not much detail but they are relatively simple - both targeted towards making it easier for non-programmers to make maps using mapnik. One is a stylesheet generation tool, and the other a system to package the toolchain to run mapnik on a number of operati

Re: [josm-dev] Summer of Code 2011 Ideas

2011-03-10 Thread Sebastian Klein
Ian Dees wrote: Hi all! As admin for OSM's application to Google's Summer of Code this year, I'd like to remind everyone that we're looking for some project ideas for students to work on here on the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2011. The application deadline i

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Nic Roets
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > It can do routing and is generally wondrous. Much much more potential than > pratting around with X11 and Gosmore. I seriously doubt that that was what Frederik had in mind. A lot of developers use Gosmore only as a routing engine and

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gregory Casamento wrote: > This seems to be a good start. :) Seriously look into Spatialite (one of the backends that maps4mac can use). It can do routing and is generally wondrous. Much much more potential than pratting around with X11 and Gosmore. cheers Richard -- View this message in cont

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Gregory Casamento
This seems to be a good start. :) On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Sabo wrote: > Entirely not what your looking for (no routing, just map display), but > the only Cocoa OSM app I know of is: > > http://code.google.com/p/maps4mac/ > > - Daniel > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Gregory C

[josm-dev] Summer of Code 2011 Ideas

2011-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
Hi all! As admin for OSM's application to Google's Summer of Code this year, I'd like to remind everyone that we're looking for some project ideas for students to work on here on the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2011. The application deadline is roughly 24 hours

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Sabo
Entirely not what your looking for (no routing, just map display), but the only Cocoa OSM app I know of is: http://code.google.com/p/maps4mac/ - Daniel On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Gregory Casamento wrote: > Mike, > > In my original posting I mentioned the Mac API using Cocoa.   There > are

Re: [OSM-dev] Community standards for writing editors

2011-03-10 Thread Nic Roets
Hello Andrew, So far we found that crappy editors loose popularity. For example, Potlatch would not warn users that the two ways they are merging have two different names. Then some would call for it to be banned. Then they would incorporate the good features of Potlatch (e.g. Y! imagery) into oth

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Gregory Casamento
Mike, In my original posting I mentioned the Mac API using Cocoa. There are PLENTY of iPhone things going on. What I need is something on the Mac using AppKit/Foundation, not on the iPhone. While such a thing would be a modest porting effort, it would be a porting effort nonetheless. :) GC

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Mike N
On 3/10/2011 10:22 AM, Gregory Casamento wrote: but for an API where you request something over > the network? The last one is what I'm looking for. http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/iphone-sdk ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Gregory Casamento
I guess what I would really like is one which uses Objective-C, if possible so that it would be easily integrated into a Mac OS X/Cocoa application. GC On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gregory Casamento wrote: > Frederik, > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> Hi, >> >> O

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Gregory Casamento
Frederik, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/10/2011 03:46 PM, Gregory Casamento wrote: >> >> Well,  by routing I mean the ability to show a navigable route on the >> nap from one point to another. > > I am still unsure if you are looking for code that does the

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/10/2011 03:46 PM, Gregory Casamento wrote: Well, by routing I mean the ability to show a navigable route on the nap from one point to another. I am still unsure if you are looking for code that does the map display and all, or just a routing engine that spits out a number of lat/lo

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Gregory Casamento
Well, by routing I mean the ability to show a navigable route on the nap from one point to another. On Thursday, March 10, 2011, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:01:37 -0500 > Gregory Casamento wrote: >> I am currently working on a solution for one of my own projects (not >>

Re: [OSM-dev] Community standards for writing editors

2011-03-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/10/2011 02:07 PM, Andrew wrote: People who write editing tools can also exert a lot of leverage, for instance by having their programs used by mappers who are less skilled and experienced than they are themselves. What do you see as being the standards the community expects of editor w

[OSM-dev] Community standards for writing editors

2011-03-10 Thread Andrew
Because anyone who imports data and runs a bot can make large changes to the database with little effort the OSM community expects them to behave themselves while doing so; this is, for instance, expressed in the wiki pages http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines and http://wiki.op

Re: [OSM-dev] Newbie questions, introductions and questions about Mac/Objective-C based mapping/Map View using openstreetmap...

2011-03-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:01:37 -0500 Gregory Casamento wrote: > I am currently working on a solution for one of my own projects (not > GNUstep related) which involves routing. I'm wondering if there are > any Mac (NOT IPHONE OR IOS) based solutions which can do what I'm > after. Answering tha