Comments on: Development of a software/website to track taxi location http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/development-of-a-softwarewebsite-to-track-taxi-location/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:14:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: gent01 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/development-of-a-softwarewebsite-to-track-taxi-location/#comment-72903 gent01 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:03:02 +0000 #comment-72903 Have you considered using the GPS enabled cellphones. There is software available to track the locations of several employees by their GPS phones. Here is an article related to this.

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/development-of-a-softwarewebsite-to-track-taxi-location/#comment-72878 carlosdl Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:36:20 +0000 #comment-72878 The link is related, but it is not exactly the same idea. The main difference is that cab4me helps you contacting the company, and not the taxi driver directly, but some similar concepts apply, for example, the sending of GPS data (in cab4me’s case, the position of the customer) to a central server, to verify the availability of taxi companies in the area.

I don’t think it is something too hard to do. Getting the location from the GPS should only take a few lines of code, and sending it to a central server (using any kind of internet connection) should also be something moderately easy provided a service is listening on the server. How to do that would depend on the platform of the mobile device and the listening service of the server.

I have seen sample code for this kind of task on the Android platform in some web forums, but I guess it can be found also for other platforms.

Good luck.

]]> By: veriya http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/development-of-a-softwarewebsite-to-track-taxi-location/#comment-72852 veriya Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:14:12 +0000 #comment-72852 well i don really need to team up with taxi companies. as i said its a degree peoject, so no need to go so broad.
but yea i will get their views on the project. of course its gonna b a plus point on the project.

what i am wondering is how to send the data(location of the taxi) to the server from the mobile phone.
i think i have to use GSM. but wonder if how this is gonna be really done.

and the link that u gave, i don think its really related to the idea that i am talking about.

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/development-of-a-softwarewebsite-to-track-taxi-location/#comment-72825 carlosdl Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:54:15 +0000 #comment-72825 I think it is possible, but you would have to team up with taxi companies, and if you want to show the current taxi position, of course a GPS would be needed and the company would have to agree to share the GPS information with you.

A similar application exists for the Android and iPhone platforms. It might give you some ideas: cab4me

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