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Web Video Map Tracks (WebVMT) Community Group

This group aims to encourage uptake of Web Video Map Tracks (WebVMT) to help establish an online ecosystem of users and developers by providing a forum in which to:

  • identify & refine use cases;
  • ensure that the design is fit for purpose;
  • resolve implementation issues;
  • develop supporting documentation & tools;
  • progress towards standardisation.

Participation is welcomed by anyone providing constructive input regarding these topics within the scope of 'synchronising geolocation with video for the web', and by those with relevant expertise in particular.

See also:

Group closed 2024-05-21.

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Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time

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Community Support Pages Launched At WebVMT.org

New community pages have been added to the webvmt.org website which include:

  • Support
    • Links to community groups for users & developers to share knowledge & resources
    • Links to official W3C/OGC documentation including use cases & syntax examples
  • Tools
    • VMT update tool to support users with older format WebVMT files
    • GPX import tool to help new users get started in the WebVMT community
  • Blog
    • Latest innovation news

Try the free GPX import tool which is designed to help import location data from GPX-compliant video devices to share geotagged video online with WebVMT. This is ideal for users of all location-aware video devices – such as drones, dashcams, body-worn videos, helmet cameras and smartphones – who want to get started with WebVMT.

Our community groups are free to join, so please show your support by joining here at W3C and on github. Get involved and help us make our community stronger.

W3C Group Note Published

WebVMT was published as a W3C Group Note by the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group on 19th September 2023. Many thanks to all involved.

New features include:

  • Synchronised sensor data
  • Interpolation
  • Location altitude
  • CSS extensions
  • DataCue API

The webvmt.org website has now been updated for compliance.

Developers

  • Please review the Group Note and update your implementations accordingly.

Users

  • Please update any WebVMT software that you use to the latest version.
  • Existing WebVMT files can be updated using the online tool.
  • Please ensure that you retain backup copies of existing files before updating them.

Classifying Video Training Data For Machine Learning Using WebVMT

A machine learning algorithm needs to be trained to recognise cats and dogs from video footage. The learning process can be accelerated if the training footage is manually tagged to classify timed sections of video when cats and dogs appear, which can be done in a common metadata format with the proposed data sync feature in WebVMT using the following excerpt:

NOTE Cat, top left, after 5 secs for 20 secs

00:00:05.000 —> 00:00:25.000
{“sync”: {“type”: “org.ogc.geoai.catdog”, “data”:
{“animal”:”cat”, “frame-zone”:”top-left"}}}

NOTE Dog, mid right, after 10 secs for 30 secs

00:00:10.000 —> 00:00:40.000
{“sync”: {“type”: “org.ogc.geoai.catdog”, “data”:
{“animal”:”dog”, “frame-zone”:”middle-right"}}}

This approach is applicable to any project using video as input to a machine learning algorithm, regardless of the video encoding format, e.g. MPEG, WebM, OGG, etc. and without modifying the video files themselves.

In addition, video metadata can be exposed in a web browser using the proposed DataCue API in HTML.

Call for Participation in Web Video Map Tracks (WebVMT) Community Group

The Web Video Map Tracks (WebVMT) Community Group has been launched:


This group aims to encourage uptake of Web Video Map Tracks (WebVMT) to help establish an online ecosystem of users and developers by providing a forum in which to:

  • identify & refine use cases;
  • ensure that the design is fit for purpose;
  • resolve implementation issues;
  • develop supporting documentation & tools;
  • progress towards standardisation.

Participation is welcomed by anyone providing constructive input regarding these topics within the scope of ‘synchronising geolocation with video for the web’, and by those with relevant expertise in particular.

See also:


In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.

This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2018-10-15 by Rob Smith. The following people supported its creation: Rob Smith, Peter Rushforth, François Daoust, Linda van den Brink, Joseph Pollack, Carine Bournez. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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W3C Community Development Team