WebVMT Status Update

1. Progress Made

    i. Continued participation in weekly progress calls for OGC Testbed-16 FMV to Moving Features [1] task as an Observer. Updated MPEG2 Transport Stream parser which currently exports WebVMT map commands & paths [2, 3] from MISB 0601 [4] KLVs in MPEG2 metadata packets.
    ii. Contributed to Responsible Use of Geospatial Data discussions on 12 & 26 August 2020
    iii. Established GitHub repo [5] for WebVMT Community Group [6].
    iv. Demonstrated WebVMT [7] exported from MISB 0601 [4] metadata using the WebVMT.org mobile demo [8] to Testbed-16 FMV telecon, 27 August 2020 with drone videos [9].
    v. Submitted proposal for follow-on work to export MISB metadata with WebVMT for web browsers in OGC Testbed-17 for sponsors’ meeting [10] on 2 September 2020 with 3 use cases: crowdsourced evidence, aggregated streams & underground inspection.
    vi. Continued development of Android app in preparation for publishing on Google Play store.

2. Next Steps

     i. Parse MISB 0903 [11] VMTI metadata from MPEG2 to generate WebVMT Paths [3] for OGC T16-FMV [1] task.
     ii. Publish Android app on Google Play store.
     iii. Propose WebVMT breakout discussion for W3C TPAC in October 2020 [12] with focus on moving objects & sensors APIs in web browsers.
     iv. Raise WHATWG/HTML pull request for 'Unbounded Cue' based on previous discussion [13].
     v. Continue community outreach and identify more activities to promote progress towards the standardisation track.

[1] https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=91644#PartFMV <https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=91644#PartFMV>
[2] https://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/#mapcontrols <https://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/#mapcontrols>
[3] https://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/#paths <https://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/#paths>
[4] https://www.gwg.nga.mil/misb/docs/standards/ST0601.16a.pdf <https://www.gwg.nga.mil/misb/docs/standards/ST0601.16a.pdf>
[5] https://github.com/webvmt/community-group/ <https://github.com/webvmt/community-group/>
[6] https://www.w3.org/community/webvmt-cg/ <https://www.w3.org/community/webvmt-cg/>
[7] https://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/ <https://w3c.github.io/sdw/proposals/geotagging/webvmt/>
[8] https://webvmt.org/demos/mobile <https://webvmt.org/demos/mobile>
[9] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/105RWjm879-vlmWdiHO6In4C7GoeXC78F <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/105RWjm879-vlmWdiHO6In4C7GoeXC78F>
[10] https://portal.ogc.org/files/94032#_timeline <https://portal.ogc.org/files/94032#_timeline>
[11] https://www.gwg.nga.mil/misb/docs/standards/ST0903.5.pdf <https://www.gwg.nga.mil/misb/docs/standards/ST0903.5.pdf>
[12] https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2020 <https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2020>
[13] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5297 <https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5297>