>> 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 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
