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playing with fireEagle

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

i’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

fireEagle result

brightkite results

radar results

enter geo-coordinates in fireEagle: 40.764694,-73.987995

fireEagle result

radar results

enter geo-coordinates in radar: 40.764694,-73.987995

fireEagle result

radar results

after refresh…

radar results 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.

fireEagle results

radar results

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comments: Comments

  • weird, i can enter those coordinates in FE and it works. Radar obviously is trying to display your location and it doesn't have a name for those coordinates so it just displays nothing at all, just pushed a fix to display your coordinates if we don't have a city/state. not sure why FE is breaking...
  • the weird piece is when you enter those coordinates in radar, then fireEagle updates. it becomes "9th ave" and then the mapping in radar is then at 9th and 35th
  • yep, radar is 2 way to FireEagle... those coords are for 9th/35th right? or is it 52nd?
  • the coordinates are for 52/9th.

    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?
  • yeah. we've been following up with yahoo on this, see this thread:
    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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