Today marks the official beginning of Google Summer of Code 2019! Given that, it might be a good time to introduce myself and let anyone interested know about my project for this summer. So let me begin with a few words about myself:

About me

My name is Iason Manoloudis and I am a Computer Science student in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece. I’ve been working on my application for OpenStreepMap as well as on the OSM2World project for some time now and after some back and forth with Tordanik, my application has been accepted! Working with an open source organization is a first for me and I really look forward to get more and more involved in the numerous aspects of OSM.

Regarding the project

Regarding this summer’s project, the main focus will be around implementing traffic sign rendering capabilities in OSM2World. This extends from “basic” speed limit signs to destination signs on highways with non-standard text, all the way to more generic implementations like svg texture support and more. The various tasks of it touch a (I could say) rather wide range of the existing codebase and for anyone interested, you are of course welcome to see more details on it in the application document. So far I have committed a small contribution as I get to learn my way around the project and, as it seems now, this exciting part of in-depth discovering a large project will never stop until the end of the summer.

I will make sure to post updates on the work here, in this diary, so stick around for weekly / bi-weekly entries as we go through this exciting period!