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Real-time Tracking and Mapping of Geographic Objects by Ragi Burhum
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Transcript
Real-time Tracking and Mapping of Geographic Objects Ragi Burhum @rburhum
[email protected]
AmigoCloud We Synchronize Map Data - offline/online - edit
If you have tried this before, this may seem familiar…
Licensing Issues - Password-protected Site - Asset Tracking or similar
- Map Data Provider’s (Navteq, TomTom/TeleAtlas, etc) Business Model
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Most People See This
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Examples of Free/Open Datasets Out There
OpenStreetMap
NAIP
SRTM
Natural Earth Data
Map Renderers (Mapnik, MapServer, GeoServer) + Style File
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Client-side Map JS Library
“Normal” GeoStack Nginx Gunicorn (Django) TileStache Memcached Mapnik PostgreSQL/PostGIS Data
Storage Web / Mobile Client (OpenLayers) Varnish (80)
https://gist.github.com/RBURHUM/4559323
http://tilestache.org/doc/
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A good real-time tracking solution requires a stateful connection
Polling is BAD
Server-Side Events Instead of having [N] clients polling every [X]
time interval, how about the server notifying you
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Publisher/Subscriber Queue One of the queues (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc) M3
M2 M1 M4 Publisher Subscriber Subscriber Subscriber
Celery is awesome! from tasks import myCustomTask myCustomTask.do_work(my_data) myCustomTask.do_work.delay(my_data)
“Normal” GeoStack Nginx Gunicorn (Django) TileStache Memcached Mapnik PostgreSQL/PostGIS Data
Storage Web / Mobile Client (OpenLayers) Varnish (80)
“Real-time” GeoStack Nginx Gunicorn (Django) TileStache Memcached Mapnik PostgreSQL/PostGIS Data
Storage Web / Mobile Client (OpenLayers, Socket IO) Varnish (80) Celery with RabbitMQ Node.js with Socket IO
Demo http://abuse.amigocloud.com
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Ragi Burhum @rburhum
[email protected]
m If you are in the
Bay Area and like Geo: http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup