hamishgibbs/lachesis

GPS Visit Detection

lachesis

Description

Implements the first-stage stop point detection algorithm from Hariharan and Toyama (2004) Project Lachesis: Parsing and Modeling Location Histories

Installation

cargo install lachesis  

Data format

This binary requires a .csv file (no header) with the columns: id (String), time (String), x (Float), y (Float).

Example usage

cat data/gps_data.csv | lachesis --distance 200 --time 300 --fmt-time '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' > output.csv

API Documentation

lachesis --help

GPS stop point detection from Hariharan and Toyama (2004) 'Project Lachesis: Parsing and Modeling Location Histories'

Usage: lachesis --distance <DISTANCE> --time <TIME> --fmt-time <FMT_TIME>

Options:
  -d, --distance <DISTANCE>  Maximum spatial roam of a stop point (i.e. 200m)
  -t, --time <TIME>          Minimum time duration of a stop point (i.e. 300 seconds)
  -f, --fmt-time <FMT_TIME>  Format of dates in the input file (i.e. "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
  -h, --help                 Print help
  -V, --version              Print version