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VoIP Data and Google Maps Mashup Shows Live Calls
damianwayne writes "OnSIP, a provider of hosted Voice over IP business communications, announced today the latest addition to their website: a visualization of live calls made using the OnSIP service, made possible by an integration of real time OnSIP data and Google Maps API. Each time an OnSIP customer makes or receives a call, a pin is dropped on the live call map, openly displaying call volume peak and trend information." This is all from one company's VoIP network, though — would be interesting to see an overlay of heatmaps from various providers.
Too expensive... https://www.callcentric.com/ and others are still cheaper by a significant margin...
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I'd like to think my VoIP provider doesn't have the latitude to publish my and my receiver's location in realtime, even anonymously.
Certainly the content of the calls is still private, but maybe a lot of chatter between let's say Redmond, WA and Espoo, Finland could have suggested the recent deal placing Windows Phone 7 on Nokia handsets.
Better read my terms of service...
Hey, how's it going?
Actually, jQuery provide links to a few free CDN servers for anyone to use. These include CDNs provided by Google, Microsoft and jQuery themselves. The main advantage of using public CDNs is that the .js file (whether minified or not) is usually already cached by the browser by the time the browser hits your webpage. And vice-versa, if someone visits your website before Google's (ok, maybe not so likely), Google will benefit because their website will load faster.
So, neither careless development nor cheap people. Just you forgetting to check the jQuery website and being off-topic.
Did it look to anyone else like there were fewer than 100 calls going on? Just to be sure, has anyone heard of this company before? Is this mashup an attempt to get some free publicity on the web? Because there map isn't all that interesting, either......
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Am I the only one seeing a blank Google Map? Wow, the whole network is down!
The European Union has decided that all its member states must force phone companies to keep a record of phone call meta data (who calls whom, when, where, how long, etc.) for several months. This has caused significant opposition and some laws implementing this directive have already been found to be unconstitutional in some member states. And now this company not only keeps these records but also makes them publicly available? Are they nuts? Publishing or even just keeping this information without explicit customer agreement would run afoul of data privacy laws in Europe (except when mandated by law, of course).
I work for a UK MNO, and have done the same with various data pieces, including mapping the cell site locations setting up data sessions in real time onto a google map. It didn't really work due to the quantity of data. The trends disappear into a blob over the whole country.
This sort of thing is only really interesting on a large scale, but it doesn't scale (well, not through free tools).
... not much to see here. 5 talks in the last few minutes? When are they going out of business? Is this their last try at a publicity stunt to acquire customers? Might be the best way to frighten them off.
Hmmm... so it's a very basic mashup running on an advertising page for a VOIP server to show how spread out their population is.
And coincidentally, the ad in Slashdot's sidebar is for that exact same VOIP service.
Let me guess, the submitter works for them or is getting compensation from their marketing department?
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
On a second note: do we know that the markers popping up are real? There could be just random US cities being choosen. If the're smart they might be even using some statistical data or at least populations size to influence the randomness.
something we've had internally since integrating with Genuity in 2001
I watched for a little bit, seriously, watching paint dry is more stimulating....
There's a guy on the phone about a block from my house. I think I'll go see what he's chatting about.
This would be a useful feature only for the purposes of datamining.
I'm fairly certain that the implementation idea originally arose from the minds of pseudotechies who's imagination for innovation is parallel to the likes of which who have given us such things as USB powered tortilla steamers, corporate Facebook pages for sausages, Bluetooth-enabled ice cube trays, etc.. While I don't immediately believe this [idea] was originally intended to syphon off sellable information from the populace like the effing matrix, but such it shall be used.
It's easy to tell when the fence around a company's 'think tank' is too low when the only ideas it produces are to integrate existing products with faddy technologies, cameras, clocks and social networking; like when the end product is somehow equal or less than the parts taken alone.
'Preferable' is not implicit of 'possible', do not want.