pbugnion
commented
6 years ago Hi,
Thanks very much for the feedback.
Exporting maps with a drawing layer to PNG should just work -- I've opened a separate issue (#224). Note that the user won't be able to interact with the PNG, so presumably that won't solve your issue?
With the package as it currently stands, exporting an interactive version of the drawing layer to HTML is not possible -- user interactions in the drawing layer rely on the maps being backed by a Jupyter server. I agree that it would be nice to move that into the browser client so it still works when exported to HTML.
If I were in your position, I would either:
- host a notebook server on a cloud provider (e.g. Amazon EC2) and invite trusted users to draw on that directly. If you do that, you need to make sure you secure access to your notebook.
- with untrused users, use very experimental widget dashboarding features like this or this to host a dashboard on a cloud provider (e.g. Amazon EC2).
- use something like binder to provide a throw-away notebook environment backed by a GitHub repository.
- use a platform that allows hosting notebooks -- Google Colaboratory (I have no experience with that, so no promises) or SherlockML (full disclosure: this is what I work on for my day job).
acresnick
Hello,
This is a great package! It's more comprehensively met my needs than any other python/google maps interface.
One additional feature that could be very useful: the ability to export an .html file, send it to someone else who can then open it up in their browser, draw on it, save it, and send it back. Is this possible?
Currently when I use a drawing layer:
1) I cannot export to .png 2) When I export to .html and open in browser, I cannot add markers, polygons, or lines -- the drawing pallet is there, but the markers don't show up on click.
In both cases when I try to save/export I get the following: "Cannot download layer: DrawingLayerView. Remove these layers to export the map."
Thanks!