Additional model features

[hexann666]

A list of features from open-source data, that could improve positioning quality:

• add elevation above sea level
• add light pollution
• add density population
• open streets data

[Calmwaters77]

The features we found a way to acquire are "elevation above sea leavel" and "light pollution" (or specifically "artificial brightness"). We can get both features through API's. The "elevation above sea leavel" can be acquired with the API from https://api.open-meteo.com without restrictions so far. The other API we can use is from the website https://www.lightpollutionmap.info, but in this case we need an API-key from the creators. We contacted Jurij Stare, one of the creators of the API directly and told him about the project, and he gave us the key for 100.000 data-requests per day, but its not for public use.

We made a notebook, a modul and a README.md file for it, which you can find here: helium-positioning-model-engineering/src/adding_features/

It is not yet implemented in a pipeline due to time shortage and the restrictions of the API-usage to acquire the artificial brightness value, but the building blocks for it are already set.