[OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

[Niccolo Rigacci]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:23:16PM +0300, Ciprian Talaba wrote:
> >
> You mean like OpenGTS: http://opengts.sourceforge.net/ ? :)

It seems that the web interface improved greatly since the last 
time I checkd that project!

Neverthless, if I'm right, the project started around the 
low-level software, concerning vehicle data acquisition, not 
around the web application.

Also I don't think that the architecture used by OpenGTS 
(Java/Tomcat) is well suited for a modern web-GIS application. It 
seems to me also that the back-end engine for data acquisition is 
tightly tied to the web interface. I imagine a stand-alone web 
interface instead, getting data from a database where others 
stand-alone data engines put data. I mentioned MapFish as a 
possible framework.

Finally I don't like very much the dual-version projects, with an 
open source basic version and a closed source enhanced one. I 
fear that the organization controlling the code base will prevent 
the community from pushing advanced features into the open 
version.

But I cannot speak about OpenGTS, because I never followed the 
project actually.

-- 
Niccolo Rigacci
Firenze - Italy