I am seeking a London or South England developer to work on a small project. We are a London-based business who operate a fleet of vehicles; we're trying to build an application to make life easier for our dispatchers. If you are interested in this work please email alastair at anyjunk dot co dot uk.
Here's an outline: 1.1 Overview Create a web service or console application to display 3 data sets on a visually clear map: - Vehicle location (not live data – recent position fixes with a delay, via XML web service) - Job locations and outline information (by postcode from our local SQL Server - Fixed data – territories and important locations (from a static list) The service/application will update mapped data as vehicles position data changes and as jobs’ status changes in our database. Tool will be available to multiple users simultaneously (both locally and, ideally, remotely). 1.2 Back end 1.2.1 GPS and job data Write an application that pulls XML lat-long data from our GPS tracking service (Verilocation) and job postcode data from our logistics software and process it for use by the web service (geocode where necessary, store in separate DB where necessary) . It is anticipated that data will be pulled every 5 minutes for the current day and on-demand for future/past days. 1.2.2 Vehicle allocation data Write an application that interprets which vehicle will cover which team/zone on a given day (and therefore which GPS data stream applies to that team). This is expected to work by allocation of dummy ‘employees’ (each representing a vehicle) to a team/zone in ServiceCEO on a day-by-day basis. Pull this data from logistics DB. This should update in same way as job data (above) to take into account occasions when teams ‘swap’ the zone they cover during working day. 1.2.3 Fixed data Store fixed data so that it can be used by the web service. This will include territories and place markers. Ideally it would be possible to update this internally (through a database backend is fine – an interface would not be needed). 1.3 Front end 1.3.1 General Use Google Maps or similar web service (incorporating scroll/drag and zoom controls) or Mircosoft MapPoint (for which we have multi-user licenses). Map will show truck locations, job locations and fixed data with various filter criteria. 1.3.2 Filters Front end to potentially offer 2 levels of filter on the data that is displayed on the map: 1. Date filter – to display different days’ jobs (only one date to be displayed at a time) 2. If necessary for map clarity, vehicle filter – to select which vehicles’ locations and their associated jobs are displayed (from 1 vehicle to all vehicles) 1.3.3 Map markers Map placemarks/icons will be colour coded or similar – with one icon type for trucks and another for jobs. The truck and its jobs will share the same colour of icon. The job icons will be numbered to indicate their order in the schedule. Clicking on the job icons will expand a balloon with additional job data (client company/name, job summary, expected duration). When job status changes in logistics database the job icon will change (suggest strikethrough). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
