Google Summer of Code 2009

Well, like previous year  this year we are also in Google Summer of Code 2009. So if you are interested in OpenStreetMap, This is the right time to do so. You can take a look at potential project applications here.

GSoC meetup at Google R&D Bangalore office.

28th july was scheduled for the meetup about which i was very excited. Reached Bangalore on 27th and rested for the day .
On 28th reached Google’s office at old madras road . At reception me along with other GSoC students were given stickers on which our names were printed . We were recieved by Aishwarya [...]

Bangalore visit .

Though my original intention was GSoC Meetup held at Google R&D office in bangalore on 28th July. I somehow succesfully converted it into a vacation which i needed very badly .
After a lot of fight i finally managed to get hold of two train tickets to bangalore via chennai .
my train to chennai (corromondol express [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin For JOSM –status == complete

*phew * after a lot of silly mistakes and fight ..finally gpsbabel plug in available for josm ..that what i can say watching by JOSM firing up a nice gpsbabel gui in my machine .
Thanks a lot to my Mentor Raphael Mack . and Josm Dev people for bearing all the silly mistake and i [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin Update

My plugin is working in linux well and good . Only thing remaing is to integrate it in JOSM . Here are few screenshots .

Now just a test in windows is left ..and will be done by today .. need a place to share my code .

[GSoC] Gpsbabel plugin status report

I finally finished my exam and started coding at full power .
In the last 15 hours of work i have done the following :-
1. Redesigned the gui and  finished adding functinality to GUI .
2. Executing gpsbabel via the gui – > work on progress . Here i am stuck because i dont have a gps [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin for JOSM post 1u1

I mainly maintain my contact with my mentor Raphael Mack via email . so after some discussions and some ideas from my mentor . I finally managed to make a GUI on which I will be continuing my work .
My plugin is divided in three part .
1.  GUI itself(design with Netbeans used Metal theme as [...]

[GSoC] GPSBabel Plugin for JOSM – post 1

My GSoC proposal is a three module part , of which I am posting about my first module .
GPSBabel (for who dont know ) is a utility tool to download gps data in various format from your gps device ,phone etc . Since my proposal aims at a smoother flow of gps data from GPS [...]