H'mm. all great thoughts, mostly about camera focal planes grids, pattern matching and spatial query formulations,

I'm still thinking more about  the geocoded media, created for AR.

How will these sometimes sometimes huge, often, very small, data chunks describe their precise 3D postion, for -- maximum discovery-- by the maximum number of crawlers, for yet to be invented fossgeo ar clients , .com ar clients like layar and mobilzy, and 1000 more to follow shortly, 3D map clients like google earth and bing [cringe], VR worlds, mmorpgs, the whole web, etc.

Maybe it's just a URI including lat.lon.elev....crs... ?

now wondering if the location semantics in the URI could be as plain language simple as a delicious, facebook or twitter URL.


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Chris Goad wrote:
There is a substantive issue here to do with local coordinate systems. When representing the features of a particular object it is sometimes useful to employ coordinates local to that object, and represent separately the position of the object in the world or relative to its parent in a heirarchy. Reasons: The coordinates of features relative to the object may be known more accurately than global position of the object, and an AR device's relative position to the object might also be known with greater precision than its global position. The object may not have a fixed position (eg AR on board a ship). The representation is more compact.

3d modeling formalisms support this (and full GML does too), but GeoRSS, GeoJSON, and KML do not. This is probably an argument for going to represententations built for 3d in the first place for AR applications where local coordinates play a necessary role, but concievably there is a niche for our lightweight geo standards extended by addition of a transformation node.


-- Chris

----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Willmes" <[email protected]>
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Hi,

whats the problem here? Its simple coordiante transformation stuff... or do I miss something?!

The device gets the geocoordinates from the web, and computes those using its own position and orientation to local camera coordinates....

its that simple... I think. ;-)

regards,
Christian

Mike Liebhold schrieb:
Ron Lake wrote:
The most logical coordinate
system for locating such items is a rectilinear coordinate system (x-y-z
frame) centered (origin) at the focal point of the camera.
What's the use case?

In most cases, we probably can assume that the geo-annotations exist independent of the viewpoint; e.g. a viewer should be able to see the note attached to a restaurant from any perspective as they pass on a sidewalk, or drive by.

In that case, we need absolute coordinates, not relative to the camera perspective.

imho

Mike
Cheers

Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Liebhold [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: August 28, 2009 2:05 PM
To: Ron Lake
Cc: Joshua Lieberman; [email protected]; geojson; GeoRSS
Subject: Re: [georss] [Geojson] simple 3D geocode for AR

Ron Lake wrote:
The use of geographic coordinates for [location of things in the field
of view relative to the camera] likely does not. [ make sense]

Ron,

This is really counter intuitive, Can you explain what you mean?

- Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Lieberman
Sent: August 28, 2009 11:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: geojson; GeoRSS
Subject: Re: [georss] [Geojson] simple 3D geocode for AR

In both GeoRSS GML and GeoJSON, some explicit CRS needs to be specified to use 3-coordinate locations. The simplest one for GeoRSS seems to be epsg:4979 ( urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4979 ). It would need a slight modification to support the GeoJSON long-lat encoding. Otherwise use GeoRSS Simple and the elev property.

e.g.

<georss:elev>346</georss:elev>
<georss:point>42.3234 -173.234134</georss:point>

Well-known text description of 4979
(http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4979/ )
GEOGCS["WGS 84", DATUM["World Geodetic System 1984", SPHEROID["WGS
84",
6378137.0,298.257223563, AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]], AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]], PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0, AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]], UNIT["degree",0.017453292519943295], AXIS["Geodetic latitude",NORTH], AXIS["Geodetic longitude",EAST], AXIS["Ellipsoidal height",UP], AUTHORITY["EPSG","4979"]]

Josh

On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Ron Lake wrote:

Sorry my example should have been

<Point id = "P1" CRS = "http://www.blah.bla/standardCRS.xml";>
<coordinates>100 200 150</coordinates>
</Point>

But the argument is the same. Similar encodings can be made in JSON
etc.

R

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Turner
Sent: August 28, 2009 9:57 AM
To: [email protected]; GeoRSS; geojson
Subject: Re: [georss] [Geojson] simple 3D geocode for AR

Simplest?

Just include a 3rd coordinate in GeoRSS-Simple point or GeoJSON
point.
No, this is not explicitly valid. But you see where that discussion
gets us. Long windy roads of elusive semantic talk (arguably
necessary
in the lon term, but not simple or useable *now*, which is when
people
are building these tools).

If we lose interest without achieving a near term concensus,
developers will just do arbitrary, different solutions. Give them a
simple answer now, even if it makes your strict-validation-only-skin
crawl just a little bit. :)

So I say just do it, and we'll catch up with documenting it as uses
emerge.

Also, KML already supports 3D points.

Andrew



(via mobile)

On Aug 27, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Mike Liebhold <[email protected]> wrote:

A friend wrote me with a request for clarification on a topic we've
discussed many times here, but every time we've approached a
consensus the answer seems elusive.

Many devleopers are starting to create applications for iPhones and
Android phones to view location specific data through the
viewfinder using the -imprecise- capabilities of the built in gps
and compass and applications platforms like Layar.

The question:

What is the -simplest- way to geocode a geoannotation in 3D using
geoRSS/Atom, geojson, KML ....?

(Is there a practical reason why WGS '84 shouldn't be implicit, and
a CRS lookup NOT be required?)


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