is it possible to use Waze offline or for development using their routing algorithm? - waze

Is it possible to use Waze in an offline or development type mode?
I would like to report things to the Waze system like road closures and have it recalculate my route. I would like to do this many time in an attempt to determine which roads are the most critical in terms of affecting drive times.
Is this sort of thing possible?
What I am looking for is the use of the Waze routing server as a black box in a private manner.

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Can I connect Life360 to MightyCall/Fare Harbor through Zapier? Or do I need to use APIs or?

Hi Overstock flow peoples,
I've been in the startup/digital marketing scene and know some things on analytics, html/css, and marketing automations and have recently picked up some SQL/Tableau. Im coming here looking for possibly help/recs on connecting a marketing system/inflow that uses Fare Harbor/Mighty Call/Life 360 and I'm wondering if I could automate things with Zapier (or some other platform), or if I'd have to do it all with development or using APIs or something.
I work with a company that does some travel taxiing/luggage help for travelers. Im looking to see if Zapier (or any other system) would be able to automate some tasks.
So clients book through Fare Harbor, their data goes into our system through Mighty Call, and we give updates to the clients on the drivers ETAs manually through Life360 (like the owner actually TEXTS people directly).
Would anyone here know if there's a way to use Zapier to automate the ETA/communication updates of Life360 through Zapier? (Or would I have to develop something completely on its own to do this?). Or know if there's any other type of software to do this immediately off the top of your head? (etc). Otherwise we have to text all these updates manually and we're trying to get away from doing things that way.
Sorry if this comes off as a rookie post, as its my first direct post on Stack Overflow, although I've used this website a number of times to configure CSS before and other ish (and this isnt my first rodeo). Any advice or direction that could be given would be IMMENSELY helpful.

How to get a rout information with trafic flow information included for a past date?

I am trying to use Azure Maps API. It will be nice to have route information which should include the locations of course and a speed profile. As you can understand speed profile is not an east one. Free flow speed profile is ok. But we want to simulate real-world conditions meaning that we want to select date and time of departure to get accurate speed information as close to as possible to a real world traffic influence.
Is there any feature that Azure provide this? If not, which API can provide this
I don't have any code at this moment to show since ı don't know which API to use.
Historical traffic data is not currently available in Azure Maps but is being investigated as a potential future feature.

personal nest api access

I've had a Nest thermostat for a little over a year and it works well. I also have many other Home Automation devices. I'm a Software Engineer and I enjoy making my life easier by programming my own, personalized, solutions to Home Automation issues. For example, I have my own weather station which reports information to Weather Underground using my own custom software. I also have my own, home grown, web interface which integrates both the X10 devices in my house and also the Wink devices, on one page.
I would like to gather temperature readings from my Nest thermostat and integrate that information into my home temperature information, in order to get a better idea of what is happening in my house. I signed up to be a Nest Developer and jumped through all of the hoops to get an access token in order to use the REST API. They turned me down!
So, it sounds as if Nest is not allowing their customers to access the information from your own thermostat in your own house! I find this closed system unacceptable! If Nest will not allow me access, then I guess my only alternative is to replace my thermostat with some other model which is more open and accessible?
Have others run into this closed system? Is there a way to deal with it, or is Nest simply saying, "we want your personal temperature information history, but we're not allowing you to have it, yourself."
Apparently, you don't need to get approval. Just proceed with describing the program, etc., and get the pincode. It works fine for a small number of users (50, I think) without approvals.

GPS code for server

Is there any code for GPS receiver and for GPS net server available?
I want to build complete application: a client for the MS Win Pocket PDA and a server which shows position of my trucks on map. It is easy to find via internet code for GPS receiver (PDA) but I cannot find corresponding part code for server.
If I am understanding you correctly, you want the code to be able to render trucks on a map on your server.
If that is the case, I think that the approach you need depends on the language you are using. Plotting GPS coordinates on an X-Y plane is not a straight forward thing to do, reason being that if you where to cut the surface of the globe into pieces you would not end up with perfect squares, and would thus have to use a technique called Map Projections.
There are various readily available mechanisms provided by companies such a Google provided that you implement a web application. If on the other hand you where looking for a desktop application, SwingX provides a Java API which allows you to build GPS related desktop applications through the use of OpenStreetMaps.
So basically, you can have something as follows:
Create a concurrent server which accepts data from these PDA's and save it in the DB;
At a given period of time, pull the data from your database and refresh your desktop application or web page.
Edit: You can take a look at this tutorial to see how you can draw and plot on a map Using SwingX. If you shall be using Java, you might want to give a look at this previous SO post for more Java mapping API's.

Strategy for modeling a multiple web app subscription system

I am working on a system using php/mysql where I am allowing users to subscribe monthly to various, small browser based web apps. Each app will have different subscription terms and plans. The apps are all currently built and they reside within the same framework.
I am in the modeling phase so I am looking to make this system as flexible as possible wheren the terms from one plan to the next will vary. Any thoughts on how to elegantly model this?
Rather than building this yourself you could look into using something like Zuora.com. Please note that I haven't used these guys or have any affiliation, I just remember reading something about services like this starting to emerge for web-app publishers needing a simple billing/metering solution.
Of course, you also need to consider which payment gateways you support, but I think that Zuora does that behind the scenes.