Handling clicks on the marker

[DmitrySidorow]

It would be great if you could switch to other dashboards when you click on the marker. With support for field variables in the url.

[bijwaard]

Having links per marker would indeed be very handy. You could have a look at the flowcharting plugin that has this working via mapping rules.

[DmitrySidorow]

great implementaion also in https://github.com/panodata/grafana-map-panel

[bijwaard]

Wow, how many map panels are there? The grafana-map-panel looks a lot like the worldmap panel, or is it the same? I didn't get it to work with the testdata db.

[amotl]

Dear Dennis,

at first, I would like to salute @Drazair, @j-or, @CodeFunta and @Alkarex for their excellent work on the Alexandra Trackmap Panel.

The grafana-map-panel looks a lot like the worldmap panel, or is it the same?

It is a fork of the original Worldmap Panel by @daniellee and contributors, but we tried to improve it on many ends by a) collecting further contributions from the community and b) adding some things from our own pen. Saying this, we still try to keep up with regular maintenance and have also been able to integrate further contributions there.

For a look back at history, you might want to refer to [1]. For a reasonably up-to-date summary, please enjoy reading [2].

Wow, how many map panels are there?

At [3], we tried hard to outline many of the most valuable contributions from other forks of the original Worldmap Panel. Feel free to add more suggestions there.

I didn't get it to work with the testdata db.

We will be happy to hear about more details what you exactly tried and where it is failing.

With kind regards, Andreas.

[1] https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/developing-grafana-worldmap-ng/1824 [2] https://community.panodata.org/t/grafana-map-panel/121 [3] https://github.com/panodata/grafana-map-panel/issues/20

[bijwaard]

Dear Andreas,

In retrospect not so strange that the different map panels look alike, thanks for the history lesson and links;-)

I really like the marker visualisation that we can customize in the Alexandra fork, with hyperlinks on the markers they become even more valuable.

A further suggestion is to make some of the options (like visualisation type) changable via grafana template variables, so they can also be toggled in viewing role with selections (i.e. without edit mode).

Kind regards, Dennis

[j-or]

@amotl Thanks, both for the kind words and for adding info. @bijwaard Just to clarify, alexandra-trackmap-panel (this repo) is not a fork but a different plugin built from scratch. So just to clear up any confusion (hopefully 😉 ), an overview of the various map plugins mentioned here and in other issues now looks something like this:

https://github.com/grafana/worldmap-panel: Original map plugin https://github.com/panodata/grafana-map-panel: Fork of original worldmap-panel with added improvements https://github.com/alexandrainst/alexandra-trackmap-panel: This repo, another map plugin (not a fork) https://github.com/pR0Ps/grafana-trackmap-panel: Also a map plugin (not a fork)

[amotl]

Dear Jack,

thanks for clarifying. I haven't been aware that this might have confused people. Do you believe I should also make it more clear at https://github.com/panodata/grafana-map-panel/issues/20#issuecomment-573387329?

Specifically, I would like to add that while others more or less follow the same paradigm as the original Worldmap Panel suitable for displaying measurement values on a map, both of grafana-trackmap-panel and alexandra-trackmap-panel are - nomen est omen - much more suitable for displaying tracks of moving entities.

With kind regards, Andreas.

[j-or]

The popup is now parsed as HTML, so adding a link there will work.