RaccoonOnMap APIs

It's possible to get all the information from the RaccoonOnMap server. The RaccoonOnMap web services are provided via REST calls.

User's location and presence information

http://raccoon.openlaboratory.net/RaccoonOnMap/ROMserver.php?action=getlocation&user=foobar

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This will tell RaccoonOnMap server to send a location query to the user's mobile phone.

User's camera

Following URLs tells RaccoonOnMap to return picture from user's camera phone.

http://raccoon.openlaboratory.net/RaccoonOnMap/ROMserver.php?action=getpicture&user=foobar
http://raccoon.openlaboratory.net/RaccoonOnMap/ROMserver.php?action=getpicture&user=foobar&request=last

The first URL returns user's photo and saves it to the RaccoonOnMap. The latter on fetches the last cached photo from the server.

A direct link to user's location data via raccoonloc.py script

The link above uses RaccoonOnMap server as a proxy to control the number of requests send to the mobile phone. The server uses the raccoonloc.py script in user's mobile phone to fetch the information. You can also call directly your mobile phone's location script with this URLs:

http://your-mobsite-name/RaccoonOnMap/raccoonloc.py
http://your-mobsite-name/RaccoonOnMap/raccoonloc.py?m=getLoc
http://your-mobsite-name/RaccoonOnMap/raccoonloc.py?m=getGSM

The first two URLs returns both GPS and GSM cell location, the last one returns only GSM cell is location.