UI Improvements

[koebi]

After reviewing the UI in the qgis-like-output branch, the following possible improvements came up:

• [x] Add header with general Info and Links (as before)
• [x] left-align OSM type (otherwise it feels a bit restless…)
• [x] Measure should be outside of simple, it's used for advanced as well
• [x] Years - Months - Days is a bit unclear - is this the Period for the Time interval below? If so, reorder and add title
• [x] What is keep geometry less in the advanced parameters
• [x] Rename harmon. geom to harmon geom in output since it only affects output
• [x] sort advanced parameters to the bottom
• [x] The option to add multiple point or polygon layers seems a bit unnecessary and can be dropped
• [x] Centroids get deleted once you click "+" again. These should stay, the API even supports multiple radii :)
• [x] any provider change issues a metadata request. This results in a lot of them. Can this be changed only if something in the provider settings changes?
• [x] if a layer contains a lot of points, the log gets rather long. could we add truncation to the geometry part in the log? Everything else is super helpful though!
• [x] if no output is given, a temporary layer should be produced

[merydian]

keep geometry less applies the dict.pop() method on the dictionary created from the response geojson, with "Feature" as an argument. This, when checked, results in the output of an additional table without geometry, containing the same data as the usual output file.

[merydian]

The branch qgis-like-input solves: The option to add multiple point or polygon layers seems a bit unnecessary and can be dropped by taking input by selecting a layer, as in any other QGis tool. This dismisses the existing Centroids input option.

What is the preferred option?

[koebi]

keep geometry less applies the dict.pop() method on the dictionary created from the response geojson, with "Feature" as an argument. This, when checked, results in the output of an additional table without geometry, containing the same data as the usual output file.

Then this could maybe be called "also save only data" or something similar. I think the space for a more "lengthy" name is there, and there should be the possiblity to add a "comment" that only gets shown on mouseover.

[koebi]

The branch qgis-like-input solves: The option to add multiple point or polygon layers seems a bit unnecessary and can be dropped by taking input by selecting a layer, as in any other QGis tool. This dismisses the existing Centroids input option.

What is the preferred option?

Is it possible to keep the Centroids-option and have all other layer inputs as QGIS usually does? If not, I'd like @mcauer and/or @joker234 to comment on this, since they have a better intuition on what will be more useful to our users.

[merydian]

Regarding: if a layer contains a lot of points, the log gets rather long. could we add truncation to the geometry part in the log?: I assume we are talking about the View'->'Panels'->'Log Messages' log? From the documentation it seems that this was intentionally kept to full length for debugging reasons. Should we add truncation anyways?

[merydian]

The branch qgis-like-input solves: The option to add multiple point or polygon layers seems a bit unnecessary and can be dropped by taking input by selecting a layer, as in any other QGis tool. This dismisses the existing Centroids input option. What is the preferred option?

Is it possible to keep the Centroids-option and have all other layer inputs as QGIS usually does? If not, I'd like @mcauer and/or @joker234 to comment on this, since they have a better intuition on what will be more useful to our users.

I suppose with a days worth of work it could be done.

[koebi]

Regarding: if a layer contains a lot of points, the log gets rather long. could we add truncation to the geometry part in the log?: I assume we are talking about the View'->'Panels'->'Log Messages' log? From the documentation it seems that this was intentionally kept to full length for debugging reasons. Should we add truncation anyways?

Yes, exactly. If possible, it would be good if only the geometry could be truncated, such that you still have the original request, but your geometry looks like:

points: point1, point2, point3, …

[merydian]

Regarding: May metadata requests when provider changes, this is due to the temporal index being adapted. Isn't this a necessary step?

[koebi]

In general, yes. It is something that shouldn't change too often, and that could be cached and updated once/day? It might be a bit of premature optimization though, I'm also fine with keeping it how it is currently and adding an issue (to then tackle later on, hopefully).

[mcauer]

The branch qgis-like-input solves: The option to add multiple point or polygon layers seems a bit unnecessary and can be dropped by taking input by selecting a layer, as in any other QGis tool. This dismisses the existing Centroids input option. What is the preferred option?

Is it possible to keep the Centroids-option and have all other layer inputs as QGIS usually does? If not, I'd like @mcauer and/or @joker234 to comment on this, since they have a better intuition on what will be more useful to our users.

I suppose with a days worth of work it could be done.

I would say it is worth to put some effort and keep interactive centroid option in addition to choose some layer input

[koebi]

fixed in #58