Automotive and Web Platform Business Group LBS work

Goals

Create specifications about LBS, including Data Format Specification, Client API Specification, and Service Specification.
Create conformance tests to cover new specifications that get defined.
Provide use cases and other reports to identify additional needed standards work and to drive successful automotive web deployments.

Scope of Work

The IVI-LBS domain cover basic features:

Basic navigation:
- Navigation Core, including Location Input, Route Calculation, Route Guidance.
- Map Viewer, including Map Rendering and View Control
Basic extensions:
- Point Of Interest (POI), providing a POI Search interface with a content access module mechanism allowing to extend the search to external data sources.
- Traffic Info, providing a Traffic Incidents Service.
- Geocoding, enrich geographic coordinates with a description of the location and vice versa
Vehicle Positioning
HMI extension:
- Speech Services (output, input and dialog).

Architecture

Specifications

The group will develop three Specifications for IVI LBS:

LBS Data Format, which might be available for IVI LBS. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the LBS Client API and LBS Service Specification.
LBS Client API, which is WebIDL-based API.
LBS Service Specification, which is websocket-based API.

The Contributor License Agreement (CLA) Patent section does apply to Specifications.

Test Suites

High-quality, comprehensive and automated test suites are important interoperability drivers. The group will endeavor to create test suites for each specification it releases. Test Code will be contributed under a 3 clause BSD License. The Contributor License Agreement (CLA) Patent section does not apply to test suites.

Non-normative Reports

Since participants will reflect diverse interests within the automotive ecosystem, the group plans to document a variety of (non-normative) use cases and other reports. These may serve as input to other W3C (or non- W3C) groups to indicate capabilities that need to be standardized. The Contributor License Agreement (CLA) Patent section does not apply to these non-normative reports.

Roadmap

Q3 2016	Q2 2017	Afterwards
LBS Data Format [BG report]	LBS Client API [BG report] LBS Service Spec [BG report]	Go to WG?