Managing and sharing Open XFCD

The enviroCar server’s central tasks are the enviroCar platform user management and the management of the XFCD data provided as OpenData by the enviroCar drivers. To ensure data privacy, the server anonymizes the recorded tracks for external access. The enviroCar server’s RESTful API provides access to driving statistics, as well as space and time related subsets of the XFCD data in various formats.

52°North reengineered user management workflows for GDPR compliance, dockerized all components, created new data analysis features (e.g. OSM MapMatching) and implemented the publication of newly created tracks via Apache Kafka. In addition, we developed an anonymous API that allows the upload of tracks without a user account.

Key Technologies

• MongoDB
• Apache Kafka
• Java
• Guice
• Guava

Benefits

• User management support
• XFCD data management
• Open API for data export: JSON, CSV, SHP
• Linked Data/RDF API
• Publishing anonymized tracks via Apache Kafka
• GDPR compliance

The JSON Schema is maintained in rest/src/main/resources/schema.

See envirocar.github.io/enviroCar-server.

The documentation is a GitHub page and managed in the branch gh-pages, see https://github.com/enviroCar/enviroCar-server/tree/gh-pages.

• Stable API: https://envirocar.org/api/stable/ (the master branch)
• Development API: https://envirocar.org/api/dev/ (the dev branch)

• Install and run MongoDB >2.4.
• Clone the repository and switch to the directory.
• Configure the connection in mongo/src/main/resources/mongo.properties (if needed).
• Run mvn clean install.
• Deploy the war file in webapp/target to a application server of your choice (e.g. Apache Tomcat).

The following project uses the enviroCar Server:

• CITRAM - Citizen Science for Traffic Management

Copyright (C) 2013-2019 The enviroCar project

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