Google Maps proof of concept
Posted by Jason on June 18, 2008 at 11:14 am
An interesting job this one - develop a proof of concept application for vehicle tracking using the Google Maps API. The vehicles in question are already fitted with a GPS positioning system which also provide various other useful bits of information, most notably g-forces.
We’ve managed to create an application that will do real-time (and accelerated) playback of a journey displaying the vehicle g-forces en-route. For the first time we’ve developed the application using the Castle Monorail framework. Extremely useful for rapid application development, as in this case where the project start to finish was around 3 weeks.
Hopefully this will lead to the development of a full-blown and marketable application, though I am aware that the licensing options for Google Maps are still under discussion.