WorldHistoricalGazetteer / whgazetteer

World Historical Gazetteer platform
http://whgazetteer.org
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Maps: Search page enhancements #69

Open kgeographer opened 2 years ago

kgeographer commented 2 years ago

The map on the Search page could be improved in several ways:

  1. Convert the core library from Leaflet to MapLibre GL JS, which offers more and better possibilities for rendering large feature collections.
  2. Initial display a heat map of all features
  3. Allow spatial filtering of the entire index by drawing a bounding box and/or polygon shape. Because results can include 100s of 1000s of records, a heat map or similar would be required
  4. Upon selection of region or study area by the dropdown, prior to entering a search term, zoom to the area and return a tabular summary its contents. The summary would be replaced by the normal result table when a name query is made
  5. Full screen option

Most of these would require some coordination with backend developer to provide appropriate internal API endpoints