Matt, 

The CoordinateEncoder already supports coordinates of any number of dimensions. 

- Chetan

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Agreed: https://github.com/numenta/nupic/issues/1461
> It might also be cool to have a 3D Coordinate Encoder that does the
> same thing for X,Y,Z coordinates (where Z is optional).
> ---------
> Matt Taylor
> OS Community Flag-Bearer
> Numenta
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If people are finding that altitude is a parameter they care about, I
>> suggest modifying the GeospatialCoordinateEncoder to also take in altitude.
>> Then, for whoever wants a 2D geospatial encoder, they can just use a fixed
>> altitude. I feel this is the cleanest approach.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>
>>> Matt is correct: Chetan's coordinate encoders are the way to go. I'd
>>> follow his method and extend the CoordinateEncoder to three dimensions -
>>> perhaps calling it the GPSEncoder - with speed used to form a radius in 3D
>>> space.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Fergal Byrne
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sounds awesome! Let's talk about data. Do you know what kind of data
>>>> you'll be getting from these planes and ships? How many individual tracks
>>>> are you talking about?
>>>>
>>>> We have two types of encoders currently for spatial data. The
>>>> GeospatialCoordinateEncoder [1] is fed lat/lon coords and velocity, but it
>>>> doesn't deal with altitude. It is a subclass of the CoordinateEncoder [2],
>>>> which can be fed any array of coordinates and a radius. For more details on
>>>> these encoders, see Chetan's video [3].
>>>>
>>>> If altitude data is important, I suggest you try using the
>>>> CoordinateEncoder, and manually calculate a radius for the encoder using
>>>> velocity.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/blob/master/nupic/encoders/geospatial_coordinate.py
>>>> [2]
>>>> https://github.com/numenta/nupic/blob/master/nupic/encoders/coordinate.py
>>>> [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxxHo-FtKRo
>>>>
>>>> ---------
>>>> Matt Taylor
>>>> OS Community Flag-Bearer
>>>> Numenta
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Cameron Hunt <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to share a new project we're undertaking: integrating NuPIC into
>>>>> our current environment where we do analysis on plane and ship traffic 
>>>>> from
>>>>> ADS-B and AIS messages. Integrating NuPIC is part of an overall rework of
>>>>> our environment to shift to using Hadoop as our data persistence and
>>>>> processing environment, and we're adding in Cesium/Geomesa for our
>>>>> geospatial UI/UX, and Lab41's Dendrite/Titan distro for our graph data
>>>>> UI/UX.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our goal would be to add anomaly scores generated by NuPIC into our user
>>>>> review process. This means that for us it is as important to understand 
>>>>> how
>>>>> humans work with identified anomalies and feed their analysis back into 
>>>>> the
>>>>> algorithm.
>>>>>
>>>>> C4OE is a new non-profit that was created - in part - to better support
>>>>> development of Open Source analytical software. So everything we develop 
>>>>> (or
>>>>> that we fund others to develop for us) will be released under an 
>>>>> appropriate
>>>>> Open Source license.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cameron Hunt
>>>>> Director, Center For Open Exploration
>>>>> Cell: 843.654.4708
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>>
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