Submitting Author: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)
All current maintainers: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)
Package Name: MovingPandas
One-Line Description of Package: Trajectory classes and functions built on top of GeoPandas
Repository Link: https://github.com/movingpandas/movingpandas
Version submitted: 0.2
Editor: Jenny Palomino (@jlpalomino)
Reviewer 1: Ivan Ogasawara (@xmnlab)
Reviewer 2: Martin Fleischmann (@martinfleis)
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JOSS DOI: N/A
Version accepted: v 0.3.rc1
Date accepted (month/day/year): 03/19/2020
MovingPandas is a package for dealing with movement data. MovingPandas implements a Trajectory class and corresponding methods based on GeoPandas. A trajectory has a time-ordered series of point geometries. These points and associated attributes are stored in a GeoDataFrame. MovingPandas implements spatial and temporal data access and analysis functions (covered in the open access publication [0]) as well as plotting functions.
A usage example is available at http://exploration.movingpandas.org,
[0] Graser, A. (2019). MovingPandas: Efficient Structures for Movement Data in Python. GI_Forum ‒ Journal of Geographic Information Science 2019, 1-2019, 54-68. doi:10.1553/giscience2019_01_s54. URL: https://www.austriaca.at/rootcollection?arp=0x003aba2b
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Geospatial (primary): The MovingPandas Trajectory class implements is a spatio-temporal data model for movement data.
Data visualization (secondary): The implemented plot functions enable straight-forward movement data exploration that goes beyond plotting the individual point locations by ensuring that trajectories are represented by linear segments between consecutive points.
Movement data / trajectories appear in many different scientific domains, including physics, biology, ecology, chemistry, transport and logistics, astrophysics, remote sensing, and more.
For example, the provided tutorials cover the analysis of migrating birds as well as the analysis of ship movement within a port.
scikit-mobility is a similar package which is also in an early development stage and also deals with movement data. They implement TrajectoryDataFrames and FlowDataFrames on top of Pandas instead of GeoPandas. There is little overlap in the covered use cases and implemented functionality (comparing MovingPandas tutorials and scikit-mobility tutorials). MovingPandas focuses on spatio-temporal data exploration with corresponding functions for data manipulation and analysis. scikit-mobility on the other hand focuses on computing human mobility metrics, generating synthetic trajectories and assessing privacy risks.
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