[WIP] Improvements and features on the shoulders of giants

[amotl]

Dear @daniellee,

thanks for conceiving and maintaining this excellent plugin and bringing Grafana to us in general. As we are into displaying small-sized maps e.g. on [1], we added some useful options along the lines of #177.

The options are called autoPanLabels, autoWidthLabels, showZoomControl, showAttribution and legendContainerSelector, we are describing them in detail at [2].

We believe the options could be helpful to others and might even resolve some of the issues already listed here, so we are humbly asking if you could review them in order to check whether you would be inclined to accept an appropriate pull request for these changes?

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] https://weather.hiveeyes.org/
[2] https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/grafana-worldmap-panel-ng-series/1824

[amotl]

We just added corresponding software tests with e03297a to reassure backward compatibility and correctness.

After squashing our commits and rebasing to master, we want to preliminary share master...hiveeyes:develop with you and hope it will spark your interest.

[amotl]

Hi there,

after pulling in some essentials from #129, #156, #169 and #190, we continued adding this and that which eventually dragged us into a more comprehensive refactoring. While we are still maintaining the whole overview at [1], we just added a short introduction at [2].

Some of the newly added features still lack accompanying software tests and we are looking forward to improve this situation. However, for now we are happy with the status quo as the revamped panel works pretty well for us so it would be a pity not to share it with others.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/grafana-worldmap-panel-ng-series/1824
[2] https://community.grafana.com/t/giving-the-grafana-worldmap-panel-some-love/17210

[amotl]

Hi there,

we recently have been able to mitigate some issues [1] on top of our refactoring work. @perosb helped sorting things out - thanks again!

So, as we recognize others are being able to successfully use this thing, we feel confident to start bringing it to a larger audience of people. Maybe this might spark your interest.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] grafana-toolbox#3

[amotl]

Hi there,

we just wanted to add that we renamed the most recent version of the refurbished code base to Worldmap Panel NG which can now be installed side-by-side of the vanilla Worldmap Panel like

# Install most recent version side by side
grafana-cli \
  --pluginUrl https://github.com/hiveeyes/grafana-worldmap-panel/archive/develop.zip \
  plugins install grafana-worldmap-panel-ng

This should make it more easy for people to install it on their Grafana instances for giving it a try.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[amotl]

Dear Grafana Worldmap lovers,

we just wanted to let you know about the new home [1] we established for the refurbished code base. We renamed the plugin again to grafana-map-panel, so it can be installed side-by-side with the original Grafana Worldmap.

Installation instructions are outlined at [2].

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[1] https://community.panodata.org/t/grafana-map-panel/121
[2] https://community.panodata.org/t/grafana-map-panel/121#setup