[GRASS-dev] Interest in contributing

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Hello,

My name is Djimeli Konrad a second year computer science student from
the University of Buea, Cameroon. I am proficient in c, c++ and
python. I would like to contribute GRASS GIS for the Google Summer of
Code 2016. I am interested in working on the project "v.in.osm
enhancement". I have previous experience developing a VRML-STL parser
hosted on github ( https://github.com/djkonro/vrml-stl ) and also an
X3D importer for BRL-CAD GSoC 2015. I would like to get some pointer
to some starting point that could give me a better understanding of
the project.

Thanks
Konrad

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On 14 March 2016 at 23:58, Djimeli Konrad <djkonro35@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Hi Konrad

My name is Djimeli Konrad a second year computer science student from
the University of Buea, Cameroon. I am proficient in c, c++ and
python. I would like to contribute GRASS GIS for the Google Summer of
Code 2016. I am interested in working on the project "v.in.osm
enhancement". I have previous experience developing a VRML-STL parser
hosted on github ( https://github.com/djkonro/vrml-stl ) and also an
X3D importer for BRL-CAD GSoC 2015. I would like to get some pointer
to some starting point that could give me a better understanding of
the project.

The main idea is to have a module to import OSM data in GRASS GIS.
There are several tool able to convert OSM in other formats: osm2pgsql
[0] for PostGIS, OGR driver [1] for the most common GIS formats,
impoosm [2] for databases and geojson file. Each of these tools needed
a configuration file to understand how to manage the OSM data
specially filtering data using the tags

The idea is to implement these different tools as methods of v.in.osm
module to import osm and pbf file into GRASS GIS, the module should be
able also to download data using the OverPass API [3]

What do you know about GRASS GIS and OpenStreetMap?

Thanks
Konrad

[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql
[1] http://www.gdal.org/drv_osm.html
[2] http://imposm.org/
[3] http://www.overpass-api.de/

--
ciao
Luca

http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/
www.lucadelu.org

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Hello Luca,

I am new to GRASS GIS and OpenStreetMap but I have always been
interest in GIS in general. I just started doing research on this and
I am ready to do all the work required to get up to speed for the this
task. I would like to know if you this is feasible with the present
time frame.

Thanks
Konrad

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On 15 March 2016 at 11:54, Djimeli Konrad <djkonro35@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Luca,

Hi Konrad,

I am new to GRASS GIS and OpenStreetMap but I have always been
interest in GIS in general. I just started doing research on this and
I am ready to do all the work required to get up to speed for the this
task. I would like to know if you this is feasible with the present
time frame.

Yes it should be feasible, of course you should work hard, specially
the first weeks to understand a little bit GRASS and OpenStreetMap.

Thanks
Konrad

--
ciao
Luca

www.lucadelu.org

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Hello Luca,

Thanks for the pointers. I have been doing some research and studying
the information on the links you provided and I am confident I would
be able to execute the project. I am presently working on my proposal
and looking for a starting to work on as part of my proposal.

Thanks
Konrad

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On 17 March 2016 at 00:30, Djimeli Konrad <djkonro35@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Luca,

Hi Konrad,

Thanks for the pointers. I have been doing some research and studying
the information on the links you provided and I am confident I would
be able to execute the project. I am presently working on my proposal
and looking for a starting to work on as part of my proposal.

ok, if you need any help, you can also write me privately

Thanks
Konrad

--
ciao
Luca

http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/
www.lucadelu.org