robzand - Latest Comments in playing with fireEagle

Re: playing with fireEagle

robzand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:19:37 -0000

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

Re: playing with fireEagle

adityac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:31:06 -0000

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!

Re: playing with fireEagle

robzand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:19:58 -0000

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?

Re: playing with fireEagle

adityac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:16:57 -0000

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

Re: playing with fireEagle

robzand — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:12:48 -0000

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

Re: playing with fireEagle

adityac — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:41:04 -0000

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...