Follow-up publication

[anitagraser]

I missed the session on next steps today. Will there be a follow-up publication after the workshop? If yes, who is leading the effort?

[martinfleis]

Well, we haven't really discussed that in the end.

During the discussion on point vs. area/block support and intensive/extensive/categorical variables and their treatment in spatial operations, we agreed that this is one of the topics that would deserve a deeper dive and ideally a formulation of some suggestions so that may lead to a focused paper on this topic. I'd be happy to take a lead on that, ideally in close coop with @edzer who clearly put way more thought into that than I did.

On the more generic follow-up publication, I am not certain about the shape and narrative of such a text but maybe others have some ideas?

[anitagraser]

Moving Features may be interesting to look at, e.g. OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension - JSON

Image source: https://ksookim.github.io/mf-json/

https://anitagraser.com/2022/04/23/mf-json-update-tutorial-with-official-sample/

[goergen95]

Sorry for chiming in from the sideline, but the discussion about temporal features sparked my interest. I will try to dive into the OGCs MovingFeatures, is it an official standard yet? There is also CZML developed by Analytical Graphics Inc./Cesium under an open licence that I leverage in the R package cesium. A lot of the properties defined there actually deal with the (temporal) visualisation within CesiumJS, so maybe Moving Features is actually more relevant in the context of standards and cross-language interoperability? I would be very interested in opinions about that aspect from folks more experienced with space-time data.

[anitagraser]

@goergen95 yes, the main standard is official: https://www.ogc.org/standard/movingfeatures/ but some of the encoding formats may not yet be or -- at least -- they are still being worked on ... I don't claim to understand OGC's internal workings ;-)

[anitagraser]

@goergen95 oh, and regarding Cesium, I know that they are involved: https://github.com/aistairc/mf-cesium

[goergen95]

Thanks @anitagraser, looking forward to learn more about Moving Features. It might just be the thing I was looking for!