[SoC] Mentor for OpenStreetMap

[Roland Olbricht]

Dear all,

as an OpenStreetMap activist, I'm happy that a student, 	Mateusz Konieczny, is 
asking to implement my GSoC project proposal
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2014/Project_Ideas#Editors

For that purpose, I would like to register as a mentor. Following the 
guideline at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Administrative#How_to_register_as_a_mentor
I'll introduce myself:

I'm Roland, dedicating my spare time to OpenStreetMap, and most of the time 
there to the search database Overpass API
http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Overpass_API

One of the ongoing challenges we face in OpenStreetMap is editing route alike 
structures. They may appear as bus routes, hiking trails or just a long river 
that should have the same name everywhere. The idea is to improve a key 
editing software for OSM, called JOSM, to faciliate editing such structures.

The proposal above aims at public transport, but in discussions with the 
potential GSoC student Mateusz, we came to the solution that is useful in more 
generality. The deliverable will be a JOSM plugin that allows to mark routes 
by constructing them with a routing engine. The challenge is to integrate the 
software tightly enough to be ready for production use (and for later 
integration in JOSM).

I myself am in general interested in all the data management topics of 
OpenStreetMap. I've got a doctoral degree as mathematician, but I'm doing 
software with efficient algorithms as my day job. I'm now for five years active 
in the OpenStreetMap community and I would like to tutor a down-to-earth but 
long-term useful GSoC project for OSM.

Best regards,

Roland