Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-11 Thread Kai Krueger
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote: ... I think a more useful criticism would include some specific ideas... Well, if we are throwing around random ideas, I might as well chime in too... To state it upfront, I am not involved in any of the parts suggested, so I can neither fully judge

[OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Hi Folks, We have submitted an application for OSM to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code, so next week the people from Google will be reviewing the application and our project ideas list to chose which organisations to include in the programme. Looking at the project ideas list (

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page!   If you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will do and I will add it. Here's my idea: Can we please not make things like Develop a

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the Wiki page! If you don't have chance to do that, an email to me will

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 10/03/10 16:31, Ian Dees wrote: For example, one of the requirements in the simple editor that I've been sketching in my doodle-notebook is to have an extremely fast nearest way lookup. I imagine something like that

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're actually suggesting here - if you're talking about a new API call for the rails port to return the nearest way to a point then that is certainly not a big enough project to be GSOC worthy - it's little more than a few hours work. One of

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Steve Hosgood
I've got an idea for a project - but I've no idea if it's do-able in the scope of GSoC. Basically: fix the History tab on the main slippy map. Currently, if you hit that button you get a list of (what appears to be) every edit-session whose bounding-box contains the bounding-box of the current

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 17:30, Steve Hosgood wrote: What you need is to generate a dirty-tiles list for every edit-session in the database and only display the edit-sessions whose dirty-tiles list includes tiles that you're looking at with slippy-map at that time. Obviously, this is a crude description

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Körner
What you need is to generate a dirty-tiles list for every edit-session in the database and only display the edit-sessions whose dirty-tiles list includes tiles that you're looking at with slippy-map at that time. Such a dirty-tiles list could be used in tile-expiring on the render servers

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Thank you all for your replies - It is good to see people giving this issue some thought. I also see that the project ideas page has been updated which is excellent! There are some interesting suggestions in the above emails. I'll try to summarise where we are - please correct me if I am

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 16:31, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:52, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: Please give this a bit of thought, and add any ideas to the

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 21:14, Graham Jones wrote: 5. An interesting suggestion to improve the 'History' list, which would also help the rendering process - I liked the sound of this as this is one of the few suggestions for projects involving the 'core' of OSM. The reply suggested

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: Once you have those ideas how are you gong to pick one? I for one think: * You should try to make students work on existing /active/ projects instead of sending them off on their own for 3 months Yes, that's

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 10/03/10 21:14, Graham Jones wrote: On this I did just try to look for the API 0.7 feature list, but can't find it - is anyone thinking about what the next version of the API will do, or do we think we are about there,

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Aevar, The process is that we (OpenStreetMap) produce a list of ideas that students may wish to work on. If the students like the sound of us they will make an application describing a project proposal. Google will (assuming we are successful) allocate us a number of student places - we had 6

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Jones
Ian, Tom, Thanks for the pointer - I had naively thought it would be linked from the 'API' page and didn't think to search! Would anyone have an issue with me adding the link so I can find it again? It is an interesting list of possibilities isn't it - would anyone that knows more about it than

Re: [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/03/10 21:53, Graham Jones wrote: Thanks for the pointer - I had naively thought it would be linked from the 'API' page and didn't think to search! Maybe if anybody involved with coding the API was taking it seriously then it would be... Would anyone have an issue with me adding the