Weather Data in Schema

[ASardemann]

Hi Rob,
as mentioned in the TPAC Breakout I think it could be interesting to add some weather data to the file. This could allow monitor climate change for example. Unfortunately I am not so much into coding, but I just wanted to leave this idea here, as you mentioned.
Kind regards
Anil

[rjksmith]

Anil,

Thanks for your input.

I'm interested to know more about your weather use case:

• What weather details are required?
• How will the video device obtain those details?
• Why is it important to include video content with them?
• How could this be used to monitor climate change?

[ASardemann]

Hi Rob,

thank you for your answer. I think something like degrees (Fahrenheit/Celsius) would be interesting to fetch. Maybe with the location data also some weather data could be fetched with f.e. https://openweathermap.org/, so in general some environmental data is also captured with the videocontent and provided to/by the editor. So maybe this could deliver interesting data to editors and viewers, f.e. on day x (the video was captured), in this location (location) the temperature was x % higher than the last 5 years. etc..

I hope this fits to the discussions topic in a way? Just thought about during your talk today.

Kind regards
Anil

[rjksmith]

Thanks for your feedback and clarification.

I'm interested to know more about the information that could be extracted from the video content in this use case and what value that would have. Can you give an example please?

[ASardemann]

Hi Rob,
thanks for your interest. I think this could raise some kind of awareness on the climate issue and make raising temperatures/climate change a more vital part of users daily life. So, if some additional information (on location, weather and environment) would be served with the video content these facts and data could easily be compared. This might give more reliablitity on the climate change issue.
So f.e. someone makes holiday trips several years to the same location. With additional data on weather and weather progression it might be quite more easy to understand that the environment is changing.
That is what I thought about.
Another example might be. When you watch a video which was shot in Alaska. People might wonder how cold its actually is there. So this weather information in that case could also be useful too.
Hope this makes it a bit clearer. I don`t know if this could really be a future standard, but I would love to have this information when I watch travel videos for example.

Kind regards
Anil

[chris-little]

@rjksmith One approach would be to use the imminent OGC API-EDR (Environmental Data Retrieval) Web API standard to get appropriate weather data along a trajectory, whether for further mash-ups, course correction using wind vectors, or visibility, etc. Trajectory defined in Well Known Text, as either 2, 3, or 4D, and consistent with the Moving Features standards. Currently we are in our second Sprint to finalise the API and implementations