On 10/15/07, Mike Liebhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > Aside from fleet management applications which you already know about , > the only other 'popular' systems, I've heard of are surveillant and > proprietary like OnStar, stolen vehicle tracking e.g. loJack, telcos' > child trackers and friend finder services, military war fighting and > intelligence gathering. >
Well I know there are products like ESRI's Tracking Server and ObjectFX's SpatialRules and Events, or LBS software like Kivera's but I'm having a bit of trouble with my lame-o web research skills finding examples of people actually using them for interesting things. Because location API's on mobile phones and cars are locked by the carriers > and car companies, there are no 'popular and open' tracking aps on the web > that I know about. And I doubt that the military and intelligence guys > publish specs of their 'service' architectures. > Just curious, what kind of apps are you investigating? > > Mike Liebhold > I am interested in using a newly popular and hyped-up language called Erlang (www.erlang.org) to write a general-purpose distributed tracking backend, but I'm running into some difficulty finding a good feature set and performance profile to compare and benchmark against, since (as you mentioned) most systems are proprietary and don't release system specs :(
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