No location history in FireEagle
I was surprised to learn that there’s no way to access a user’s location history in Fire Eagle. And, in fact, Yahoo only stores the most recent user location. This a really, really, really limits how Fire Eagle can be used from both a user perspective and from a developer point-of-view.
As a user I’d much, much rather have Fire Eagle store my history centrally (and even forbid developers for storing this history themselves). This would allow me to control which applications can (at least in theory) access my trail, and which parts of the trail is available. To me, relegating this responsibility to 3rd-party developers negates much of the purpose of FE, because then there’s no one-stop place for storing and accessing locations data.
As a developer, I’ll probably need to work around this limitation by building a FE-specific data model for storing locations and by polling for user locations every five minutes or so. This seems highly inefficient, since I won’t be the only developer facing this problem.