Building a tool widgets infrastructure?

[deeplook]

I like the toolbar approach in geemap, and see a lot of potential for reusable styling and configuration components in pure Python if there would be some kind of MVC pattern at work (maybe there is). I've attached a sample clip showing a GeoJSON styling widget I wrote. There could be some collection of such widgets for ipyleaflet which seems to struggle with supporting more or less weird or undocumented Leaflet features. Where possible these could be more general and not apply only to geemap (like in my example). Any opinions?

[giswqs]

This is a great idea. I have been thinking about something similar when developing the GUIs for the geemap toolbar. This kind of widget can indeed be developed for general use. Most of the existing geemap GUI tools are designed for dealing with Earth Engine data. GUIs for dealing with client-side data (e.g., GeoJSON) are still lacking. It would be nice to have a module/package with reusable widgets like the one you showed. One thing to keep in mind is that data can come in various forms with unknown attributes. It might be challenging to develop widgets linked with data that can work out of box.

54_vector_vis_demo.mp4

[giswqs]

Good idea! Would you like to take the lead on this? I would be happy to contribute. Maybe we can build a new package based on ipyleaflet and ipywidgets without Google Earth Engine.

[giswqs]

I just created a package template named leafmap. Maybe we can use this to build a tool widgets infrastructure https://github.com/giswqs/leafmap

[deeplook]

I think I can do that. Thanks for the invite! I wonder if a name with "tools" in it might reflect more of the purpose, maybe something like leafmaptools, to make it a bit funky?

[giswqs]

Here it is: https://github.com/giswqs/leafmaptools. I plan to migrate some of the GUIs I developed for geemap to leafmap. The tool widgets infrastructure that we will eventually build in leafmaptools can also be used in leafmap.

[deeplook]

I've started collecting some ideas here: https://github.com/giswqs/leafmaptools/wiki/Feature-ideas