Shrijit Singh

Following is our conversation on Slack regarding this issue: @shrijitsingh99 We have populated our thoughts as well as a rough roadmap in the document attached below. Would be great if...

> The map XML looks pretty good. I'm mostly just wanting to keep things consistent - if we use an XML for this, we should consider moving the map.yaml file...

This is what I had in mind for the map/query server. So that map server would be reading and parsing the XML then storing it in a suitable data-structure (which...

> @shrijitsingh99 and @Sarath18 have proposed OSM-XML. Can you give us a brief overview about why you like this format over other XMLs or other open standards? The OSM specification...

> The backward compatibility might be provided by introducing a new tags in YAML, e.g. called `map`. Sounds good > As an alternative, map server API could support both YAML...

> @shrijitsingh99 can you comment on if its just XML or if OSM means something here we need to consider? XML we can obviously replicate anything in the existing yaml...

> Point that has type of "Dock" with a name of "Dock1" with coordinates (X, Y, Theta) and priority value 0.52 ```xml ``` > Point of type Waypoint with name...

> We should be clear about that language moving forward. Got it, will be more explicit going forward. > Let us know if we're taking inspiration from OSM or complying...

So having gone through the repos, here is my takeaway from this solely from a semantic map point of view, this is no way a very thorough analysis and would...

> They also have an [example using PCL](https://github.com/stereolabs/zed-pcl). Yeah, shouldn't require much effort to build a similar interface like for other devices.