[OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

[Jaak Laineste]

>> 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.

http://opengts.sourceforge.net/OpenGTS_Config.pdf has architecture
picture. The data collection is separate, not via Tomcat. I've built
commercial tracking systems for big mobile operators in the past, and
we used actually very similar technology to this (just instead of
tomcat there were higher performance engines).

I'd not really agree  if you say that Python is more "modern" than
Java-based system, and this is good enough reason to reimplement the
thing.

> 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.

You are probably right about that; you get it for free, but with a
price. This is still a small niche, and very demanding task, as usual
it turns out to be lot more complex than it seems in the first look,
especially with all the system/user administration/permission
management needs behind the scenes.

Jaak