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
Hey Bobb,
Something like Chef[0] or Puppet[1] might fit your bill.
They allow you to package your configuration into modules which can
then be
dropped into an infrastructure that supports it.
I have been working with puppet, so if you have questions, fire away.
Regards,
Karim
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Bob,
Do you mean an Open Schema (database tables, rules etc) for storing
AVL and an Open Protocol for transferring AVL data? Good idea! In the
past I've DIY'ed AVL schemas with generally good success, but I don't
know of any public/open schemas.
While there are a few protocols out
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
Arnie,
We went a slightly different route in that we defined a bare minimum schema for
mapping operations, and then augmented this with specific vendor related
database design elements. In other words the data is abstracted into the DB as
a standard, which should be able to be connected to
