Geometry scale
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Description
This is just to note down an idea that came up during discussion with Thomas.
Essentially if user has data in the shape of country_name, value and wants to make a chloropleth, he lacks the geometry for the country_name column.
The idea is that we have a scale for the geometry aesthetic that maps the country_name to geometries representing the country. We can do the same for country codes, US states etc.
For the user it may look some like this:
DRAW spatial MAPPING country_name AS geometry
The scale resolving bits figure out that the geometry aesthetic is a string instead of WKT/WKB/Binary blob/Geometry and setup a suitable palette. For proper geometry columns, it will be an identity scale.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points, so implementation location and existing scale behavior need to be established first. Clarify the supported country, country-code, and US-state mappings and define completion around resolving names to geometries while preserving identity behavior for existing geometry values.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, sql
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100