It's About Time for Time

1. It's About Time for Time Mikel Maron mikel_maron@yahoo.com http://brainoff.com/weblog/ worldKit / OpenStreetMap / GeoRSS FOSS4G, September 15, 2006

2. The weakness of current cartography is its poor representation of time. The surface of the earth is treated as a static thing. -Anselm Hook http://hook.org/anselm/essays/20060709_limits.html http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2006/01/two_possible_go.html

3. Why? Historical Photography Wildfire Migration Flooding Population Displacement Language Evolution Epidemiology Urban Sprawl Fleet Management Meteorology Land Use Patterns Political Affiliation Changes Census Traffic Transport Rainforest Destruction Events Band Tours War Border Shifts Invasive Species Spread Sensor Readings Disaster Management Real Time Data Archeaology

4. Time and Space Have Been A Single Problem For Centuries

5. GPS is about measuring time too

6. A Survey and Practical Call for Action Make your Apps Time Cognizant in any small way WMS-Time and GeoRSS are ways in to all this.

7. Temporal GIS Heavy on Conceptual Frameworks, Data Models Very lite on implementation/experimentation Doesn't incorporate common data formats, etc. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/conf/SANTA_FE_CD-ROM/sf_papers/yuan_may/may.html http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~imfeld/diss/node26.htm http://www.time-gis.de/

8. The Traditional .. Animated GIF, Movie http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=26 http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/entomology/mpb/historical/images/mpb986.gif http://mike.teczno.com/notes/paleogeoevo.html http://www.temporalgis.org/index.html

9. Geographically situated statistical charts, ReliefWeb http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LPAA-6SFKUD?OpenDocument&RSS20=25-P

10. David Rumsey, Historical Map Overlays http://www.davidrumsey.com/

11. TimeMap TimeMap.net http://timemap.net/

12. STEM GIS http://www.discoverysoftware.co.uk/STEMgis.htm

13. BBC Time Maps http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/world/06/urbanisation/html/urbanisation.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/wild/helping/springwatch/results_leaf.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/05/bird_flu_map/html/1.stm

14. NYTimes Too http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20060804_MIDEAST_GRAPHIC/index.html

15. Iraq War Coalition Fatalities http://www.obleek.com/iraq/

16. Free API Satellite Imagery Updates http://brainoff.com/weblog/2006/06/05/1156

17. Why not yet? lacking .. Simple Data Formats no hacking .. Iterative Development on those Simple Standards

18. WMS for Time Navigation • time=2006-09-15+11:07:00 • value - a single value • value1,value2,value3,... - a list of multiple values. • min/max/resolution - an interval defined by its lower and upper bounds and its resolution. • min1/max1/res1,min2/max2/res2,... - a list of multiple intervals.

19. Mapserver supports WMS Time LAYER NAME earthquakes METADATA "wms_title" "Earthquakes" "wms_timeextent" "2004-01-01/2004-02-01" "wms_timeitem" "TIME" "wms_timedefault" "2004-01-01 14:10:00" END ..ETC.. END http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_time_support

20. MapBuilder Time Series Demo http://geoservices.cgdi.ca/mapbuilder/demo/timeSeries/

21. Blue Marble Next Generation Navigator http://worldkit.org/wmstimenav/

22. Daily MODIS Imagery collected at OnEarth http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/WK/daily_aqua/

23. GML can support Time <gml:validTime> <gml:TimeInstant> <gml:timePosition>2005-12-13T00:00:00Z</gml:timePosition> </gml:TimeInstant> </gml:validTime> http://www.geoplace.com/uploads/featurearticle/0603gml.asp

24. GeoRSS for Time Navigation <item> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:08:00 +01:00</pubDate> <georss:point>46.51766 -6.57133</georss:point> ..etc.. </item> <entry> <issued>2006-9-15T11:08:00+01:00</issued> <georss:point>46.51766 -6.57133</georss:point> ..etc.. </entry> http://georss.org/

25. Avian Flu http://brainoff.com/avianflu/

26. History of Urbanization http://worldkit.org/population/

27. European Union Ascension – Polygons http://sterngasse.at/ploneworldkit/examples/european_union

28. Upcoming.org http://worldkit.org/upcoming/

29. Upcoming uses xCal for finer time definition <xCal:dtstart>2006-11-27T20:00:00Z</xCal:dtstart> <xCal:dtend>2006-11-28T23:00:00Z</xCal:dtend> http://xml.coverpages.org/iCal.html

30. London Hamlets Planning Applications http://worldkit.org/londonplanning/

31. JRC Online Tsunami Model http://tsunami.jrc.it/

32. Google Earth does Time!! <TimeStamp id=ID> <when>...</when> <!-- kml:dateTime --> </TimeStamp> <TimeSpan id="ID"> <begin>...</begin> <!-- kml:dateTime --> <end>...</end> <!-- kml:dateTime --> </TimeSpan>

33. http://brainoff.com/media/20060715.kml

34. Putting Time First

35. Time Travel Tube Map http://www.tom-carden.co.uk/p5/tube_map_travel_times/applet/

36. MySociety Travel Time Map http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/

37. Anamorphosis Maps of European Rail Travel Times http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2004/12/14/space-and-place-anamorphosis-maps-of-europe/

38. Personal World Map http://www.personalworldmap.org/

39. What Restaurants are Open Now Right Now?! http://mv-hours.easilyamused.org/http://www.gophernow.com/index.php?userLocation=San+Francisco%2C+CA

40. Flickr Space and Time Datamining http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazydad/4992355/

41. Thanks for your time! Mikel Maron mikel_maron@yahoo.com http://brainoff.com/weblog/ worldKit / OpenStreetMap / GeoRSS FOSS4G, September 15, 2006