Hello everyone, through this diary I would like to introduce myself to the broader OSM community and share plans regarding my GSoC project

About Me:

I am Zohaib Ansari, an undergraduate student in Electronics and communication from New Delhi, India

I spend my free time learning programming, working on my own small open source projects

I was introduced to OSM by a friend I play geoGuessr with, and coming across Vespucci made me interested in applying to OSM as the project idea seemed pretty interesting

Element history widget for Vespucci

During the GSoC coding period, I will work on creating the element history widget as a library for android apps, the element history widget will bring a feature similar to JOSM’s native element history comparison dialog to android (with certain platform limitations)

The Main features of this library would be:

1. Display information about all the iterations an OSM element has gone through
2. Selection of any 2 versions of the element from the history and allow comparison between them
3. Displaying other information including coordinates, changesets etc

Apart from creating the library, I would also work on providing robust test cases for the library itself and for Vespucci after the library has been integrated with it.

I will keep a detailed account of my work in the github wiki of the project and will also keep this diary entry updated throughout my time working with Vespucci, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions regarding my work or anything else!

Link to detailed Roadmap and Progress for this project: Wiki