All, my ears are way up on this. In addition to a native one written by Andy here, we're doing AVL within our Tickets CAD application by connecting to the respective proprietary servers, rather than accommodating n end-devices (where n is a large number!)
We've written parsers for each of the supported systems, and I can say that each such is a bit of an adventure. (The Good Lord must love standards; She made so many of them.) So, I'm listening. AS Veni, Vidi, Velcro On 2/6/13, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote: > All, > > Seems like a simple question, but I'm not so positive the more I think about > it. > > We've been working on an Automatic Vehicle Location application that is > loosely built on OpenSource Projects. I say loosely because most if not all > of the Open Source components could be swapped out for Commercial versions > if needed. There was a desire early on to eventually open source parts of > the project in some manner. Currently this open sourced aspect is looking > like a configuration/specification for how data is stored and transferred > between the components, and this is what we propose to open up to the > community. It's heavily focused on the geospatial aspects for obvious > reasons, but I would suspect there may be other uses for the configuration > unrelated to tracking of vehicle locations. > > Currently the components being used are (and there will likely be more in > the future) are: > > MapServer > OpenLayers > GeoMoose > Postgres/PostGIS > > Each of the these components has been configured specifically for the > project and these configuration templates would be included as part of the > project. There could even be an installer script included at some point. > > So, to put it more simply, does anyone here have any suggestions/comments on > how to proceed with project packaging? > > Thanks > > Bobb > > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
