[OSM-talk] FYI: Yahoo Fire Eagle

[Ben Ward]

Trying again with different sender address:


On 13/02/2008, 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.
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> Quoting
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/02/indoor_camping_and_the_social.shtml
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> "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.



I am actually an alpha member of this.  It's quite interesting, though how
it relates to OSM currently requires some imagination.

When I'm logging for badgertrack (which submits my location to fireeagle and
gsmloc) I tend to put it on an intelligent update mode (ie. kalman filter,
degrees of change, distance from last update).  When I'm doing OSM GPX
logging I use 1-second resolution (unless I'm walking).

I tend to find that the control on my mobile software doesn't really let me
log at a different rate to that which I'm uploading my position, so
resolution suffers for logging or I send http requests before the response
reaches me and probably end up getting rate-limited somewhere along the
line.  So if you write mobile GPS client software take note :-)

Here's an example of the output of the Public URL (you can control the
detail of the results for the public feed.
http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/api/queryLoc.php?public=.FRqBBEHIXvPFNR3Zk03_8bRJos-

Fire Eagle is an interesting project.  Using the output of the geocoding is
my next priority (especially cellid lookups) but this is likely to be
copyright data and not of interest to the OSM  project.  I think the most
important part of it is that it has permission and detail control for
individual applications, acting as a location-broker.  Very forward-thinking
if you ask me.

Ben


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