Ideas for new software projects

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-Software Projects
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+Software Projects currently worked on
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 * [[projects/geojackal]] – A geocache management database
 * [[projects/infopoint-html]] – A full screen web page viewer for info terminals
 
+Ideas for new software projects
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+
+Here I collect sketches for software that I still need to write (or that I 
+would like to be seen written by someone other... ;-)), and features that 
+IMHO still need to be implmented in existing software. 
+
+This section should serve as a source of inspiration for people that have too 
+much time on their hands.
+
+OpenStreetMap editor for mobile devices
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+[JOSM](http://josm.openstreetmap.org) and [Merkaartor](http://merkaartor.be/)
+are really nice programs for editing OpenStreetMap data on the desktop, and
+[OSMTracker](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMtracker) is acceptable for
+Windows Mobile devices. However, OSMTracker is very inflexible when it comes
+to tagging abilities. So a perfect mobile application would combine the best
+of both worlds:
+
+  * displaying the raw XML data, maybe in real-time via mobile internet 
+    connection
+  * displaying the rendered map
+  * recording a GPX track
+  * take pictures if the mobile device features a camera
+  * serve as a voice recorder
+  * adding and tagging nodes, ways, and maybe relations in a key=value manner
+    * maybe allow presets for different objects, like JOSM has. These could be
+      implemented like the customizable buttons in OSMTracker.
+    * auto-completion for keys and values would be great for people like me 
+      who cannot remember actual tag names...
+    * The absolute killer feature would be the ability to automatically import
+      the changed data into desktop software like JOSM/Merkaartor, and export 
+      diffs.
+
+JOSM: Nice-to-have
+------------------------
+* Raw diff view of the changed XML data. The current preview in the upload 
+  dialog is too simple.
+* A function to copy a bunch of tags from one object to another. Example: I 
+  have a node tagged with `shop=florist`, `opening_hours=...` and want to 
+  transfer these tags to the surrounding building to delete the node 
+  afterwards.
+