Feature ideas

This is an emerging list of possible features to be implemented in this repository/project (carefully avoiding the term "wish list").

Purpose

• add more value to the already rich Jupyter widgets (ipywidgets) and ipyleaflet ecosystem
• provide a home for reusable map tools (widgets/layers/controls) people tend to write after using ipyleaflet for a while
• have tools integrated with the existing ipyleaflet/ipywidgets ecosystem
• provide builtin tools with no dependencies on other packages, but also
• provide dedicated tools for other packages like geemap
• integrate into ipyleaflet at some point of time if that appears useful

Infrastructure

• add/access/remove tools to/on/from the map more dynamically
• allow tools to be used outside a map, but in the notebook if possible
• address some issues with existing ipyleaflet layers/controls like LayersControl
• add some tests if possible
• make tools expand/collapse to save space on the map if not needed
• give tools a close button to save even more space
• provide a "main tool" (tool bar) to find and use other tools
• add/remove tools to/from by calling some function/method in a Jupyter cell
• add/remove tools to/from via the tool bar GUI

Candidate tools

• some tool bar as the main access point to all other tools
• some TileLayerControl with improved access to the TileLayers (bitmap basemaps)
• some similar VectorTileLayerControl, but for VectorTileLayers (vector basemaps)
• some other LayersControl with improved access to the map layers (GeoJSON, etc.)
• some StyleControl as UI for the style, hover_style and point_style parameters
• some data selection/loading/importing tool
• some data saving/exporting tool