Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC 2012 Application

[Janko Mihelić]

2012/3/22 Ishan Agrawal <ishan.a...@gmail.com>

4) Currently I am researching under a professor at my University on
Indoor Navigation and Mapping using just a Android phone without using
external sensors. I am looking into the best ways to do it and found
some interesting work being done at OSM on it on the wiki
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor). I am not sure how to
contact the people working on it for mentorship and to see how best I
can contribute to it. Also, would be ok if this project is not listed
on the ideas page and I propose it?

For indoor mapping look at the following link: http://indoorosm.uni-hd.de/

Janko

[Ishan Agrawal]

Thanks Janko for the link.

I looked at earlier and tried to contact the email address for
mentorship but I did not get a reply. I really appreciate the current
work done here and would love to develop on it further. Also, I am not
sure if this project is open-source.

Regards,
Ishan Agrawal

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[Ishan Agrawal]

Hi all,

I had some ideas regarding this project. I am not sure who to and how to approach for mentorship on this project.

Games based on OSM data

I wanted to work on a game idea that I have thought of which I call "infectious". It focuses on real time movement of a person in a city. There are two groups (for eg. disease and cure) and every person belongs to either group. Whenever two people from different groups come in close proximity they can convert the other guy into their own group. The person who converts the most people wins or the whole group could win also. So essentially the spread happens like a contact based virus would spread in a community. Singapore is a great place to start this game too, since Singapore has the highest smartphone density in the world, its small enough to run country wide campaign in the game and 3G works even in underground trains, and people usually play these games during daily commutes. I am really excited to build this game using OSM data. I can build this on OSMAnd using live tracking and Map viewing features of the app.

I would really like to discuss this further.

Regards,
Ishan Agrawal

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Ishan Agrawal <ishan.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I am currently a Computer Science undergrad at National University of
Singapore. I am really interested in collection and distribution of
geo information and the cool applications that can be built on this
geo data. I have worked on some projects on location based application
and navigation systems. I am interested in exploring this further and
thus I very interested in working on a OSM project for GSoC.

These are the projects that I am interested in:
1) OSM Application for Android
2) Map for Visually Handicapped
3) Games based on OSM data
4) Friend Finder (Social Media Application Using OSM data)
5) Indoor Mapping and Navigation (i want to propose this project)

I have done some relevant projects that are quite similar to these:

1) CorruptionTrak: It is a Android application I did for India, which
helps people report cases of corruption and geotag the reports. The
reports are displayed on a heat map of India and also on a live feed.
We are now working with an NGO in India to act on these reports of
corruption. I recently showcased this app at a competition at CeBIT12
in Hanover, Germany and it was selected as the top 10 most innovative
apps in 400 applications from 42 countries. There is also a web
interface with an admin system to verify and approve reports.

2) I worked one year in RocketFuel, a online advertising Silicon
Valley startup, developing their real-time bidding system, working on
improving inefficiency and refactoring the code to make it more
scalable for international expansion. I gained a lot of technical
skills working there which have really helped me gain some practical
programming experience.

3) A research project in my University on traffic and naivgation data
analysis using Hadoop distributed programming. This project helped me
realize the impact of improvements in traffic and navigation problems.

4) Currently I am researching under a professor at my University on
Indoor Navigation and Mapping using just a Android phone without using
external sensors. I am looking into the best ways to do it and found
some interesting work being done at OSM on it on the wiki
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor). I am not sure how to
contact the people working on it for mentorship and to see how best I
can contribute to it. Also, would be ok if this project is not listed
on the ideas page and I propose it?

I have some interesting ideas for the projects on the Android App,
Games on OSM data and the Map for Visually Handicapped project. Where
can I discuss them and who would be the best person to talk to
regarding these?

Looking forward to an exciting summer coding and mapping!

Regards,
Ishan Agrawal

[Graham Jones]

Hi.  Sounds like an interesting idea.
You do not need to find a mentor.
You just need to prepare a prokect proposal and submit it on the google GSoC site.   Very good to discuss it here too though!
We match potential mentors to projects as part of the selection process.

Hope that helps.

Graham

from my phone

On 23 Mar 2012 16:44, "Ishan Agrawal" <ishan.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I had some ideas regarding this project. I am not sure who to and how to approach for mentorship on this project.

Games based on OSM data

I wanted to work on a game idea that I have thought of which I call "infectious". It focuses on real time movement of a person in a city. There are two groups (for eg. disease and cure) and every person belongs to either group. Whenever two people from different groups come in close proximity they can convert the other guy into their own group. The person who converts the most people wins or the whole group could win also. So essentially the spread happens like a contact based virus would spread in a community. Singapore is a great place to start this game too, since Singapore has the highest smartphone density in the world, its small enough to run country wide campaign in the game and 3G works even in underground trains, and people usually play these games during daily commutes. I am really excited to build this game using OSM data. I can build this on OSMAnd using live tracking and Map viewing features of the app.

I would really like to discuss this further.

Regards,
Ishan Agrawal

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Ishan Agrawal <ishan.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,

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