playing with fireEagle
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008i’ve been playing with fireEagle tonight. fireEagle brokers location information between internet applications and i was testing sharing location between outside.in radar, fireEagle, and brightkite. here’s what i did, and the subsquent results. the thing is, the radar news changes based on where fireEagle thinks you are. so, being at “9th Ave, New York, NY, US” is somewhat different than “0.01km from W 52nd St & 9th Ave, New York, NY 10019, United States”.
fireEagle settings
enter geo-coordinates in brightkite: 40.764694,-73.987995
enter geo-coordinates in fireEagle: 40.764694,-73.987995
enter geo-coordinates in radar: 40.764694,-73.987995
after refresh…
boneheaded move
earlier tonight i was able to enter geo-coordinates in fireEagle and radar. doing so now gives me the following errors: extraneous space in cut-n-paste.
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so, enter coords at 52/9 in radar -> fireEagle updates -> refresh radar ->. now radar is at 35/9. something lost at fireEagle when it interprets the coords as "9th Ave" and sends them back?
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http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fireeagle/me...
Basically, when someone changes their address, we geocode it and send it to fireeagle, when we ask fireeagle back for the same location, we use the 'name' of that location (in your case, 9th Ave, NY, NY) now when we geocode 9th Ave, NY, NY it becomes 32nd/9th.
It would be nice if they gave us back the original address you used to update but they're still thinking about that.
Centralized location brokerage has a little while to go, I think :-)
Thanks for the feedback though - much appreciated!
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