[OSM-talk] FYI: Yahoo Fire Eagle

[OJ W]

> "Obviously what Fire Eagle also provides is lots of security so you can
> control who and what applications have access to your location data"

...so long as you don't want to control whether *yahoo* has access to it,
presumably? ;)

when I looked at this stuff for pyroute[1], one of the problems running a
server like that
is you don't necessarily want the server to be able to interpret the
information stored on it
(i.e. when you publish location to a specific group, you'd need to use that
group's public-
key before uploading it)



[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Pyroute_share_server



On Feb 13, 2008 4:01 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:

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> This seems like something we will be interested in:
> http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/
> Perhaps someone in the foundation can click the interested in
> partnerships link on that page.
>
> Quoting
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/02/indoor_camping_and_the_social.shtml
>
> "For me I'm really exited by Tom Coates and Rabble's latest Yahoo!
> project: Fire Eagle; which allows you to share you location with
> friends, other websites or services.
>
> "You can think of Fire Eagle as a location brokerage service. Via open
> APIs other people can write applications that update Fire Eagle with
> your location so that further applications that can then use it. So for
> example, someone might write an application that runs on your mobile
> that triangulates your position based on the location of the
> transmitters before sending the data to Fire Eagle. You could then run
> an application on your phone that let you know if your friends where
> near by, what restaurants are in your area or where the nearest train or
> tube station is.
>
> "Obviously what Fire Eagle also provides is lots of security so you can
> control who and what applications have access to your location data. I
> can't wait to see what people end up doing with Fire Eagle and I'm
> hoping that we can come up with some interesting applications too."
>
>
>
> Robert (Jamie) Munro
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