Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-04 Thread Dave Patton
On 2010/01/04 10:41 AM, Louis Sayers wrote: On the driver side (running on the GPS device - I'm thinking touchscreen) the mapping software would provide driver directions visually and possibly audibly - just like a Navigation device e.g. TomTom - but with a few custom buttons etc on it to let

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-04 Thread Louis Sayers
I was thinking that we may be able to purchase a license to some shapefiles, or other mapping data (it's very important that our mapping data be as correct as possible). On the driver side (running on the GPS device - I'm thinking touchscreen) the mapping software would provide driver directions v

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-04 Thread Arnie Shore
WRT SMS cost, that's strictly a user issue/question of course. There are n different plans out there (where n is a large number.) And WRT yr routing data, (I note that we also provide the GMaps Street View) what do you anticipate using as the data source? Best wishes, AS On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-03 Thread Kumaran Narayanaswamy
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management Hi, I'm Louis, I noticed that in July 2009 there was a discussion on fleet management software, and people were talking about possibly starting a project (see http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-July/thread.html ) I was wondering if

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-03 Thread Louis Sayers
Thanks Arnie :) I'm probably thinking of a standalone mapping application on the GPS device, and for on the server as well. This is to limit GPRS usage on the GPS Device, and because I need to do a bit of processing on the server side (I'm thinking of routing a lot of vehicles). I'm interested t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-03 Thread Arnie Shore
Hello there Louis. I don't recall whether I'd responded to the July posting, so apologies here if this repeats anything I'd said in response. Our project ( http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-cad?lnk=gcimv) has a somewhat different orientation, but there's a lot of overlap WRT the requirem

[OSGeo-Discuss] Fleet management

2010-01-03 Thread Louis Sayers
Hi, I'm Louis, I noticed that in July 2009 there was a discussion on fleet management software, and people were talking about possibly starting a project (see http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-July/thread.html ) I was wondering if this discussion had led to the formation of a project

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-17 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Dimities: I have helped a number of customers build fleet management and tracking systems on top of http://udig.refractions.net/ I am pleased to see you have gathered quite a response; it does look like there is interest in this area. Jody On 16/07/2009, at 12:06 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos w

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-16 Thread carlos sousa
There you go, The wonders of open minded collaboration in the making. If some kind of organization is needed, one should open an account in, for exemple, http://www.deskaway.com/ and create the guidelines for a project like this, create dates for major landmarks, share whatever information is rele

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Arnie Shore wrote: Steve/All, my particular interest is in getting data from whatever client devices are available back to the server, for situation display. So right now, I dunno what category of generic software wd help me do that - but I'm sure guilty of not having thought much about that p

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Daniel Kastl
Hi Dimitris, I'm also very interested in setting up a group. Daniel Kastl Dimitris Kotzinos schrieb: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of star

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Arnie Shore
Steve/All, my particular interest is in getting data from whatever client devices are available back to the server, for situation display. So right now, I dunno what category of generic software wd help me do that - but I'm sure guilty of not having thought much about that problem. Right now, our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Basques
All, I'm partial to using GeoMoose (for obvious reasons) and the new version (2.x) is built on top of Openlayers for the same reasons described below, the plethora of providers already available. The Device aspects, I think, need to be addressed from the data perspective, even if some other

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
So do we have enough interest to ask for an OSGeo list for this? I looked at http://opengts.org/ a while back, but Java is not my favorite platform - just a knowledge and personal preference thing. It would be nice to build something based on OpenLayers for the mapping client because that all

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Tom Printy
I am interested as well and have been thinking about something like this for a couple of years now. Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet ma

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Robert Hollingsworth
Assuming that Fleet Mgmt is synonymous with AVL, I have clients/contacts in the US Rural Electric Cooperative space that have interests in this area and are possible candidates for an O-S solution because of cost and other factors. I hope a new list forms around this subject Robert H. > 1/ doe

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Dimitris Kotzinos wrote: Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of starting/setting up a group to work on this? I am also interested in such a prog

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Basques
Alll, You can count me as interested, I'm also interested in the emergency Management side of the equation. bobb >>> Anton Patrushev wrote: Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such thing and would like to join the group if

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Arnie Shore
I'm quite interested. My special interest is where the 'fleet' consists of a number of emergency response vehicles, for public safety agencies whether career or volunteer. While I have an Open Source CAD package available that provides some level of such tracking via APRS and other sources, it's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka
Hi, I am also interested joining such a group. Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Kind regards, Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka (Geschaeftsfuehrer/Managing Director) --- Geo-IT GmbH - Geoinformatik, IT-Services Guggenberg 3, D-82380 Peissenberg Tel: 0880

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Just van den Broecke
just googling: http://opentrucking.com ? and http://geotracing.com ;-) --Just Just van den Broecke j...@justobjects.nl The Netherlands www.justobjects.nl Anton Patrushev wrote: Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Milo van der Linden
1) A good starting point would be http://www.opengts.org/ 2) Yes. I am interested in a working group, preferably when there are business cases addressing the need for open source fleet management. Dimitris Kotzinos schreef: > Dear all, > > I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally qui

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Anton Patrushev
Hi Dimitris, I don't know any open source fleet management solution, but I'm also very interested in such thing and would like to join the group if there we decide to start one. Anton. 2009/7/15 Dimitris Kotzinos : > Dear all, > > I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :)

[OSGeo-Discuss] fleet management

2009-07-15 Thread Dimitris Kotzinos
Dear all, I have a couple of quick questions looking for equally quick :) answers. 1/ does anyone know of an open source solution for fleet management? 2/ if not, is there an interest of starting/setting up a group to work on this? Thanks in advance, Best, Dimitris