The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that its Membership has approved OGC API – Moving Features – Part 1: Core as an official OGC Standard.
The new Standard defines a uniform interface for accessing and querying Moving Features, i.e., geospatial data representing objects or phenomena that change location, and possibly other characteristics, over time. These include things like vehicles, vessels, people, animals, weather patterns, and more.
By facilitating the management and integration of Moving Features data, the OGC API – Moving Features Standard can provide great value to a range of applications in transportation management, disaster response, and environmental monitoring based on the ability of the OGC Moving Features suite of Standards to manage very large datasets with high refresh rates. It enables service developers to easily perform advanced analyses (e.g. movement prediction, collision detection, travel optimization) by integrating spatiotemporal information from diverse data sources through unified interfaces.
The OGC API – Moving Features Standard builds upon two key Standards: 1) OGC Moving Features Encoding Extension – JSON, which enables robust representation of dynamic properties of moving features over time, particularly continuous movement, and 2) OGC Moving Features Access, which defines the abstract specifications for accessing location data of moving features. location data access operations.
The OGC API – Moving Features Standard provides core functionalities, including operations to retrieve attributes of moving objects, such as movement trajectories, directions, and speeds, while specifying data representations, access protocols, and applicable constraints. OGC API – Moving Features also includes operations to filter, sort, and aggregate Moving Features data based on location, time, and other properties.
As with all OGC APIs, this is a multi-part Standard, with additional functionalities planned for future parts. The ‘Core’ part of this Standard specifies a set of RESTful web service interfaces and data formats for querying and updating Moving Features data over the web.
This Standard is built upon the OGC API – Common and the OGC API – Features Standards.
OGC API Standards define modular API building blocks to spatially enable Web APIs in a consistent way. OpenAPI is used to define the reusable API building blocks with responses in JSON and HTML. To learn more about how the family of OGC API Standards work together to provide modular “building blocks for location” that address both simple and the most complex use-cases, visit ogcapi.ogc.org.
The OGC API – Moving Features – Part 1: Core Standard is the result of the hard work and dedication of the Moving Features Standards Working Group. We thank the members of this group and all contributors of change requests and comments. Development of the Standard was led by:
Editors:
- Taehoon Kim: Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Kyoung-Sook Kim: Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
- Mahmoud Sakr: Université libre de Bruxelles
- Martin Desruisseaux: Geomatys, France
Submitters:
- Esteban Zimanyi: Université libre de Bruxelles
- Akinori Asahara: Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
- Chen-Yu Hao: Feng Chia University, Taiwan
OGC Members interested in staying up to date on the progress of this standard, or contributing to its development, are encouraged to join the Moving Features Standards Working Group via the OGC Portal. Non-OGC members who would like to know more about participating in this SWG are encouraged to contact the OGC Standards Program.
As with any OGC standard, the open OGC API – Moving Features – Part 1: Core Standard is free to download and implement. Interested parties can learn more about and view or download the Standard from the OGC API – Moving Features Standard webpage.
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