Glossary

Here is a list of common phrases used by spatiotemporal developers and practitioners.

Spatiotemporal Glossary

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Methods

API Overview and methods/Insert adds a new observation. The user specifies entity ID comma, time, position and payload (optional additional datapoints)

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/entities

retrieves all unique entities with an option to filter by time range

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/count

retrieves total count of observations stored with an option to filter by time range

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/entities/history

retrieves all observations for an entity with an option to filter by time range

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/polygon/history

retrieves all observations within a polygon with an option to filter by time range

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/polygon/count

retrieves total count of observations within a polygon with an option to filter by time range

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/polygon/entities

retrieves all unique entities within a polygon with an option to filter by time range

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/bounding-box/history

retrieves all observations within a bounding box with an option to filter by time range

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/bounding-box/count

retrieves total count of observations within a bounding box with an option to filter by time range

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/bounding-box/entities

retrieves all unique entities within a bounding box with an option to filter by time range

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