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Re: Gas Tracker

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:46:38 -0000

We've actually already got support for multiple vehicles, but the UI was really ugly so we left it off for the launch. Yes, and TAGS too - using the #tag syntax most twits are fond of.

Yes, vehicles can be shared by users (at least in the data model), and the data graphed per vehicle instead of per user.

I like the pub-sub feed for public "gas" idea - we're also going to make sure that gastracker can handle @replies as well as direct messages, so that people can keep it public if they want.

A question for you - we've thought of using Amazon Mechanical Turk to process simple cell-phone snapshots of the odometer / gas pump, but figured it didn't really save the user any time. What do you think?

Re: Gas Tracker

Jesse Andrews — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:10:11 -0000

Twitter has a jabber/pub-sub feed of the public timeline so you can get all public utterances of the word "gas" (or something like that)

This looks pretty cool.

2 questions:

1) can you bind two twitter accounts - so my wife and I can both update a single "account", since whoever is driving will probably add gas if it is running low ;)

2) can you have "Tags" or something so that I can track my scooter separately than my car

Re: Gas Tracker

Mandell — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:47:25 -0000

Could this be used/extended to track personal vs. business use for your vehicle? Can it track usage for multiple vehicles? I'm picturing having text messages replace the tedious logging and calculations that I have to do every year for our two vehicles that we use for business and personal use, in addition to tracking the costs and efficiency of the vehicles.