I doubt FireEagle was designed with "tracking" in mind. i.e. high-rate updates - however, it is just a platform, so will be interesting to see what people do with it. But in this way, it is *just* a platform, not a full application stack
And not benchmarkable yet either - as Dennis asked. There was a great presentation on vehicle tracking company in Latin America at FOSS4G: http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=83 I did a one-up for a non-profit in NYC: http://mapthevan.org/ Fleet tracking is, almost by definition, a private activity. So it probably will be difficult to find good use-cases. On 10/15/07, Dennis Crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/ may do this... > > ps: anyone have any idea when this is coming out of alpha? (right now it's > closed beta and I've heard from many friends who want to play too!) > > > > ____________ > dennis crowley > + 917-301-2028____________ > > > On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:34 PM, Anselm Hook wrote: > http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/ may do this... > > - a > > 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. > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > Dave Rafkind wrote: > > > > Hello list! Does anyone know what the most popular systems are for > server-based real time tracking? For instance, many fleet management > applications expose a web interface to a datacenter that collects tracked > GPS messages. What software would the datacenter probably use to do this? > > > > Thanks, > > Dave > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > -- Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42.2774N x 83.7611W http://highearthorbit.com Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
