Street highlight (V2!)

[isaacbw]

Context: Honorary street names typically have one street sign location, which work with our current set up. However, QPL is eventually wanting to add entries for the longer "non-honorary" streets. The issue with these streets is that there isn't just one street sign location. QPL has expressed a concern for the situation where a user is looking for history for one of the longer streets and concludes that there is no entry, because they don't look at the right spot on the long non-honorary street name.

Example: Archer Avenue

Proposed solution (from their team): Make the non-honorary streets that have entries entirely clickable along the street. When selected, the entire street would be highlighted.

Map highlight street (hover): When user hovers over non-honrary street with entry the street is highlighted.

Street highlight (selected): Street remains highlighted after clicked. Probably not a pop-up like the example below, but displayed currently in the content view.

Issues:

1. They don't even know if they 100% want this feature. They want to do a test and go from there.
2. Not a development feature we had explicitly discussed / scoped earlier in the project. We had planned for most of the development work to be done by this point. Grant money ends at the end of February and investing more time / money on the dev side of this project isn't optimal.
3. Design-wise might make the already messy map (because of the nature of the amount of assets on the map), even more messy.

Solutions:

1. Just tell them no this isn't a feature we can develop with the 1 month we have left.
2. Show them a design mockup created by Ben that would show them what it would look like. Maybe that would change their mind.
3. Begin developing the feature. QPL suggested using ~3-5 streets as a test batch to see if they still want the feature.
   • Non-honorary streets don't appear as clickable until a certain zoom level. (their suggestion)

[isaacbw]

(email from Zhi 2/7) Hey Isaac,

Here are the details for the route feature.

As a user I want to be able to view the line geometry of longer named streets/ways (not sure if this would be an extra column on the airtable or something we decide on the etl):

When I load the map:

• See the line geometry for longer named streets

When I click on a point

• Zoom to the extent of the matching line geometry and highlight line

When I click on a line

• Trigger the matching point event

When I click out of the active point/ line

• Reset styles

For the most part the feature is easy to implement. I can do a pull request after I work out all the bugs https://github.com/zhik/qpl-name-explorer/commits/master

[isaacbw]

To-do: check if this can be easily implemented using Zhi's code. My main concern is maintenance. If the feature is too hairy to really implement right now I think we just don't do this feature.

[allthesignals]

I'm seeing this:

I'm not sure how the feature is supposed to work just yet...

[isaacbw]

Let's push this to part 2 mellon grant!