[Planning] Geographic Features Refinement

[daemon1024]

• Standardize Adding New Spreadsheet-based layers Continue to standardize process of creating a spreadsheet-based new layer leaflet-environmental-layers#488
  • Add widget on the PL website daemon1024/leaflet-environmental-layers@e57f58f
  • Set up script(s) to generate content for new layers Script for generating new spreadsheet based layers leaflet-environmental-layers#528
  • Integrate the widget and script through API calls and GH Actions [New Spreadsheet Layer]: test spreadsheet daemon1024/leaflet-environmental-layers#12
• Increase Amount of Content on /map
  • Develop microservice over the current API
    • TBD Optimise tagLocations #9946
  • Benchmark and Investigate the current People API Research why loading nearbyPeople Srch API is so slow to load #7556
  • Explore client side optimisations
    • Debounce Optimise tagLocations #9946
    • Clustering
• Ensure empty people grid squares don't generate pop-ups Only add popup if rect contains markers leaflet-blurred-location-display#123

Succeeds #1416

This is currently broad planning points for the project. I will be detailing out, break it further, adding more relevant tasks.

[ebarry]

Let's keep this milestone, I"ll update it with this planning issue. Thanks!

[daemon1024]

publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers#121 I was wondering if spinning it out the component as Leaflet Plugin, would ease out our scripts and workflow.

What are your thoughts about this @jywarren ?

[daemon1024]

publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers#480 Bumping this issue and planning to add to tasklist.

Have we consider adding a guide/docs which doesn't require people to download/install things? Using CDNs like jsdelivr or unpkg. This would ease out for someone who is wanting to try it out without needing to externally add anything.

[jywarren]

publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers#121 I was wondering if spinning it out the component as Leaflet Plugin, would ease out our scripts and workflow.

What are your thoughts about this @jywarren ?

I like this idea a lot! It'd be a nice output of the fellowship too!

[jywarren]

Have we consider adding a guide/docs which doesn't require people to download/install things? Using CDNs like jsdelivr or unpkg. This would ease out for someone who is wanting to try it out without needing to externally add anything.

This sounds cool -- sure!

One thing perhaps in terms of prioritization is that the current map at https://publiclab.org/map is really not as useful as we'd hope it to be. I wonder if it's worth a brainstorm of ideas for how to make the experience better. Some ideas that occur to me:

1. progressively load more content as you zoom/pan (or tune the progressive loading that does happen)
2. refine the explanations of layers that appear. Many are still unclear in that it's not very legible where the data comes from, how "reliable" it is, etc.

What other ideas might we come up with?

[ebarry]

Great ideas here! These seem like ideal goals for the Fellowship on Geographic Features. +1!

It has occurred to me that in the future we could think about:

• For people who are logged in, but who haven't added their location, we might show an "add your (blurred) location" prompt ? This or something similar might help explain why the map loads on 0,0?
• For people who are not logged in, might our website "request your location" and use that to move the map to where people are?

also for later -- cartography. The fun stuff :)

[jywarren]

For people who are logged in, but who haven't added their location, we might show an "add your (blurred) location" prompt ? This or something similar might help explain why the map loads on 0,0?

This prompt would be on the /map page itself? If so, it could mirror the logic and style of the button we show on the dashboard, which shows "Add your location" if you haven't yet. I like this!

For people who are not logged in, might our website "request your location" and use that to move the map to where people are?

I think we could, but we often request location as part of the blurred location popup itself, when we do so to save that location to ones' profile. So we would have to think about whether it's redundant to ask here, or if we can clearly and simply describe how this "request your location" prompt is not /saving/ the location, but merely /displaying/ it for you, and so, relatively, preserving your privacy? Or is that distinction not really worth trying to explain vs. just getting people to input their blurred location -- does it present too much possible confusion?

Thanks! Good ideas, happy to dig into them further as well!

[jywarren]

Also noting this issue affecting display of people! publiclab/leaflet-blurred-location-display#123

[daemon1024]

I realised, I haven't noted down my progress in this planning issue.

Regarding Github Actions, the workflow lies at daemon1024/leaflet-environmental-layers#6 and seems to be working fine.

I have started working on the web form which will take the input and in-turn run the above github action . https://daemon1024.github.io/leaflet-environmental-layers/example/form.html

Most of the progress lies inside my personal fork since they are awaiting movement in publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers#531 which is blocked by publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers#532

I think my next step would be to start investigating the PL People API while make the above listed items slowly progress into the main repo.

What do you think about this? Thank You.

[jywarren]

Hi @daemon1024 - this is looking really nice. I just gave it a try and made screenshots which could be used in documentation.

daemon1024/leaflet-environmental-layers#12

Agreed on PL People API which is /super/ slow right now. I'll also look in on the Cypress thing!

[daemon1024]

Haven't referenced some of the recent things I have worked on :)
So here we are:

Only show popups when there are markers in the region:

• Only add popup if rect contains markers leaflet-blurred-location-display#123
  Followed by few version bumps across packages

Show people in a region as a bulleted list within the popup

• Show people in a region as a bulleted list within the popup leaflet-blurred-location-display#133
• Show people in a region as a bulleted list within the popup leaflet-blurred-location-display#136
• require LBLD v1.3.2 and bump LEL to v2.4.7 leaflet-environmental-layers#568
• parse title in JSONParser for LBLD leaflet-environmental-layers#569
  Followed by a lot of version bumps across packages :P

Refactor and Organise Source of truth of layers for OneLinerCode LEL

• Update source of truth of layers in AllLayers.js leaflet-environmental-layers#554

Google Deprecation of Sheets API v3

• Google Spreadsheet API v3 Deprecation leaflet-environmental-layers#553
• migrate gsheet api to public-google-sheets-parser to fix pfasLayer and spreadsheet utility leaflet-environmental-layers#555