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playing with fireEagle

Started by robzand · 11 months ago

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.

fireEagle settings
enter geo-coordinates in brightkite: 40.764694,-73.987995
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  • adityac

    11 months ago

    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...
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  • robzand

    11 months ago

    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
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  • adityac

    11 months ago

    yep, radar is 2 way to FireEagle... those coords are for 9th/35th right? or is it 52nd?
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  • robzand

    11 months ago

    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?
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  • adityac

    11 months ago

    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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  • robzand

    11 months ago

    what you describe is what i called "wonky" - thanks for the response
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