Don't have a create operation inside failed lookup

GeoTrackedEntity te = null;
        try {
            te = geoTrackedEntityApi.findTrackedEntity(vehicle.getGuid(), false);
        } catch (UnknownFeatureException e2) {
            te = addTrackedEntity(vehicle, buGuid);
        }

This code is awful because it makes it hard to know when something is created. Plus you would have to have this kind of thing everywhere a find was performed.

This is truly awful. The above method addTrackedEntity then repeats this anti-pattern to add a dataset (which is required if you need to add a tracked entity).

GeoDataSet ds;
        try {
            ds = geoDatasetApi.findDataSetByBusUnitAndName(buGuid,  
                     vehicle.getVehicleType().getName());

        } catch (UnknownDataSetException e1) {
            ds =addTrackedEntityDataSet(vehicle.getVehicleType().getName(),
                                        vehicle.getVehicleType().getGuid(), buGuid);
        }