I'm working on FireEagle... It's meant to track people. There is some debate about whether or not it should track 'things' as well. If each 'thing' had a yahoo account then you could do it. :)
Fire Eagle is a platform for letting applications track things. You'd need to build posting and display on top of it. We broke tracking of lat long info (from gps devices) so we could handle a lot of updates, we'll see how many as we start testing the system. We are very interested in getting geowankers on to the alpha version as soon as it's ready. Unfortunately it's not ready yet. -rabble On 10/15/07, Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
