Hi, I agree that improving documentation would be a really useful contribution to OSM, but Google are quite explicit that this is outside of the scope of GSoC ( http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#doc_proposals ).
A project along the lines of 'context sensitive help in OSM editors' could be a possibility though. I have never worked on one of the main editors, so I have no idea how hard this would be from that point of view. The Artifical Intelligence aspects are quite difficult in themselves though - it would have to try to guess what you would like to do from what you have just done - quite a challenge, but please add it to the list if you can manage to describe it! Regards Graham. On 11 March 2010 10:59, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > lets put it in a different perspective : > > Make the documentation as part of the program! > > I would like to see for example a help system that is integrated to the > wiki, > Click on a tag, have it pull up the wiki entry, be able to add new unknown > tags or rename them. > We could even have an OWL Ontology created with a reasoning engine to > specify rules for tagging. > > Really, the software should be so good that you dont need docs or videos. > > mike > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > GSoc >> > student pool is a very talented one - it would be good to use them for >> more >> > critical things. Of course, OSM unlike other projects is basically a >> > collection of tools maintained by various people, so difficult to >> achieve a >> > consensus. >> >> >> >> Having one place of knowhow of mapping is quite critical for project >> like OSM. And believe me, creating good documentation requires quite a >> skill and isn't easiest job in IT world as we would like to see. >> >> Cheers, >> Peter. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: grahamjones...@gmail.com
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