[SoC] Mentor for OpenStreetMap
Roland Olbricht
roland.olbricht at gmx.de
Mon Apr 7 09:55:28 PDT 2014
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
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