[ZEPPELIN-1220] Add geographical map as visualization option

[mwpenny]

What is this PR for?

Added a 2D Esri map as a graph option for paragraphs. This makes it easier to visualize relations in geographical data.
Pins are plotted at points in specified longitude/latitude columns and customizable column values are shown when pins are clicked. Is this of interest?

The angular-esri-map module is used, which is released under the Apache 2.0 license, and the JavaScript API is free to use (see https://developers.arcgis.com/terms/).

What type of PR is it?

Feature

What is the Jira issue?

ZEPPELIN-1220

How should this be tested?

Execute a query in a paragraph and select the map pin from the chart type selector.
Set the longitude/latitude (and optionally, pin info) columns, then interact with the map.

Screenshot

Questions:

• Does the licenses files need update? yes. For angular-esri-map.
• Is there breaking changes for older versions? no
• Does this needs documentation? potentially. This feature follows the same layout as the other visualization modes, so users will likely be able to use it easily. However, screenshots of some supported visualizations modes are present in the current documentation. If this PR is merged, it may be desirable to display the map option as well. Interestingly the scatter chart is not included in screenshots in the documentation.

[corneadoug]

@mwpenny Thanks for the PR
There was already some attempts to include Leaflet before, however I think it is not yet to be finished. (No pivot to choose columns at least)
I think the community should be able to decide which map they prefer.

However, in term of license, I'm still not sure if this could be included or not.
Can you provide more infos on how the Javascript API is needed?

[mwpenny]

@corneadoug, The Esri angular module is used to download and lazy load the JS API and require its various classes. These classes are then used to display the dynamically downloaded map tiles and render the different map layers (i.e., basemap + pin layer).

The angular module was developed by Esri and released under the Apache 2.0 license. They state on their website that "The JavaScript API [downloaded by the angular module] is hosted by Esri and is available for free use".

Esri also has a public Apache 2.0-licensed repo of samples (Esri/quickstart-map-js) which use the API.

[ErikApption]

@corneadoug This is a great feature! ESRI is by far the most complete mapping component and the base maps are totally free (unlike gg or bing), plus their API is open source. What would be the next step to get this PR accepted?

[mwpenny]

I've added basemap selection (see screenshot)

[corneadoug]

@mwpenny Sorry for the delay, I got a bit busy.
I will take a look this week-end. What you can do until then is to rebase with master since there is some conflicts right now.

[mwpenny]

@corneadoug Done

[corneadoug]

@mwpenny

Alright, so after taking a look, here are my feedbacks:

Overall PR

• License of angular-esri-map will need to be added in this file (That folder also contains single files if license needs to be copied)
• There is 2 files to commit: index.html and karma.conf.js which have changes after we build.
• I think it could be nice to have a page in the documentation, but let's make that in a different PR.

The Map

• The mouse scroll to zoom in the map should be deactivated, if you scroll down the notebook you might zoom out and then the map vanishes.
• Could we have the map unzoomed to show the world when loaded (Its fine to keep it centered on Canada ;) )
• The Map height do not scale when we make the paragraph bigger
• The Map is going out of the paragraph instead of being contained or fitting the size:
  
• When I click on a Pin it moves me somewhere else
  

Options & Pivot

• Let's remove the height:36px style for the pivot area, I know it was copy pasted from other place in the code, but its better to have all of them with the same height.
• The BaseMap option isn't removed when we switch graphs, seems to be a mistake here with ng-if inside a class

I will spend more time on checking the code, and would leave inline comments if there is

[mwpenny]

I have made the changes/fixes you mentioned and rebased with master. I can create the PR for the documentation after this is merged.

[corneadoug]

@mwpenny I tested it again, its so much better now.

You will need to rebase your branch (conflicts, always conflicts)

We could probably improve the marker's popup by adding a bit of padding so that its not too white?

Also depending on the paragraph height and the number of infos to show, it seems the popup header is hidden

[corneadoug]

Any way to have this CSS file locally? It seems it is not inside of angular-map-esri and the map is not rendering well without it.

If the license allows it, it would better to include it in the code assets/styles/ since some people do not have access to internet when using Apache Zeppelin

[corneadoug]

Actually it doesn't matter, we can't use ESRI maps without internet

[mwpenny]

@corneadoug I'm all too familiar with that magic when trying to reproduce bugs ;)

I've made the changes.

• Small popup: The side and bottom margins of the popup are present due to yesterday's changes (differentiating the white of the popup from the white of the paragraph) and the extra-large top margin is from Esri's CSS. After decreasing the top margin the popup is still very cluttered but a bit more usable.
  
  Even with some extra CSS styling, I just don't think there's enough space to display the popup nicely in a paragraph that small. Other graph modes have a similar problem which users are likely already accustomed to:
  
• Internet error message: I went with a look similar to the other graph modes:
  
• Lazy loading: Similar to the way esriLoader loads the map JavaScript, the CSS is now lazy loaded the first time it is needed.

[corneadoug]

@mwpenny With the way we include the css, there is still a risk of not being able to get the css, but having the JS file just fine.
Which end up in the map not showing, and no error message like the one we added in case there is no internet connection. I actually got that a few times with slow internet.

Except for that, LGTM, awesome work!
if anybody wants to try it, I use the test case of #765

[mwpenny]

@corneadoug The CSS and JavaScript come from the same server. Is the CSS timing out for you but not the JS? Or is the CSS just loading late?

And good to hear!

[corneadoug]

@mwpenny CSS loading late I guess, but there is also a possibility that the resource is not available for whatever reason.

It is not critical for now, but since there is a risk of map not showing for some users without any error message (creating more traffic in the mailing list), it would be nice to try to address it in a different PR maybe.

Merging if there is no more discussions

[karuppayya]

@mwpenny Thanks for the awesome work.
I was trying out the visualizations.
I can see only the pins, the maps seems to not load.
Any idea what could be wrong?

[mwpenny]

@karup1990 Can you send a screenshot of the map? If you look at the network requests in your browser's developer tools, are the requests to the ArcGIS servers successful (i.e., retrieval of the map JavaScript and CSS)? Here's a screenshot of what happens when I load the map (I'm using Firefox):

Also check to make sure the map tile requests are succeeding. Screenshot from my browser:

[karuppayya]

Attaching screen capture.
Request seems fine, not sure what is preventing the browser from loading them

[mwpenny]

@karup1990 Which browser are you using and what is its version? That looks like Chrome.

[karuppayya]

I am using Google Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit) @mwpenny

[karuppayya]

BTw, I tried on Safari just now. And works great :)

[mwpenny]

@karup1990 I have installed the same version of Chrome and am unable to reproduce the issue. Does clearing your browser cache and cookies help?

[karuppayya]

I cleared the browser cache and cookies. Still see only the pins @mwpenny

[mwpenny]

@karup1990 This is very strange. I cannot reproduce the issue using the same browser version and your network doesn't seem to be the problem since it is working for you in Safari.

The only other thing I can think of is a browser setting or extension interfering somehow. Try running Chrome with the --disable-extensions argument. If that doesn't work, try creating a new Chrome user profile and using that temporarily.

[corneadoug]

Could be related to the CSS maybe. Any chance it need the css before rendering the map?
@karup1990 no errors in the console?

[mwpenny]

@corneadoug When I test it without the CSS, the tiles still load but they're not positioned properly (they extend outside of the paragraph).

[karuppayya]

@corneadoug There are no errors on console.
@mwpenny I disabled all extension, and tried view the page in an incognito window. Didnt help

[mwpenny]

@karup1990 Are you able to test with a fresh Chrome installation (e.g,. using another computer on the same network)?

[tabraiz12]

adding the following css fixed the issue for safari and chrome

.esri-bitmap {
max-width: none;
}

[karuppayya]

Works fine for me after the change. Thanks @tabraiz12

[Leemoonsoo]

Dear @mwpenny and Zeppelin PMC.

I have reviewed the license of ArcGIS Online https://developers.arcgis.com/terms/ and and http://www.esri.com/legal/software-license.
Although it's client javascript library is Apache 2, client does not functioning without ArcGIS online service, so the ArcGIS Online license does matter. However, the license does not look like type of license we can use. For example

Generally, if you are not planning to monetize your app, say by charging a fee or by embedding revenue generating advertising in your app, you can make your app available to just about anyone.

and

If you want to charge for access to apps you build using ArcGIS Online you have to have a paid subscription.

Apache 2 License does not have restriction about monetization of Apache Zeppelin. However ArcGIS Online license has incompatible restriction.

Also the client is loading arbitrary code (javascript) dynamically from some remote server on runtime and we can not guarantee what kind of code will be executed on our user's machine.
see https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/blob/master/zeppelin-web/src/app/notebook/paragraph/paragraph.controller.js#L1392

Therefore, unfortunately, we might need to remove this changes from our source tree.

[Leemoonsoo]

Visualizations have incompatible license can be packaged as a Helium application and loaded dynamically. Soon, there will be highlevel api to make visualization easier based on helium.
In the future, we'll have online registry for applications. So, please consider use helium framework.

[volumeint]

I just published a helium visualization that uses Leaflet. You can find it at (https://github.com/volumeint/helium-volume-leaflet). To get it working, I first had to patch webpack.config.js in zengine 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT to add a test for png files. Leaflet has two png files referenced in their CSS.

 test: /\.svg(\?\S*)?$/, loader: 'url-loader', }, {
test: /\.png(\?\S*)?$/, loader: 'url-loader', }, { <-- add this line
test: /\.json$/, loader: 'json-loader' }, ],

[Leemoonsoo]

@volumeint cool! Do you mind make a pullrequest with modification test: /\.png(\?\S*)?$/, loader: 'url-loader' ?

[volumeint]

Just closing the loop. Pull Request #2313 contained the webpack.config.js change. It has been merged into master.