ST-Hadoop provides the basic shape data type to start manipulating with spatio-temporal objects. The STPoint shape consists of three primary attributes ( time, x, y). In a general case if your data is a comma separated format and contains these attributes in the same order., then you can simply use STPoint shape. In addition to the default 3 dimension point shipped with ST-Hadoop, you can easily extend this shape. Here in this tutorial, you will learn how to extend STPoint based on your dataset format.
Example:
2016-03-16 15:27,710200873448656896,3166925780,username,#tb @ Singapore ST-Hadoop is amazing,en,Instagram, 11.3912,103.856,2
The following code shows how to extend STPoint shape to support your input format.
