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Here it's telling me I'm using libraries from the pyviz environment, except that Datashader is being used from my dirty (locally modified) git checkout. conda list won't reveal the location in a case like this, but should work if you only ever use conda.
What's reported here is what would be found if you started python from the command line and imported things from there. If you're in Jupyter or another environment that lets you select kernels, you can be really, really sure if you run the report from within Python:
>>> import pyct
>>> pyct.report("system","datashader")
system=Darwin-19.6.0 # OS: Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
datashader=0.11.2a4+gf73a7c9-dirty # /Users/jbednar/datashader/datashader
Pyct is a dependency of some (most?) of our tools, but it has only had these features since September, and conda may not update to it aggressively when you install, so these features may not be available. Once we think it's more widely installed, I'll add these instructions to the bug reporting templates so that we'll get the info we need to debug things.
Newbie question - sometimes when working in a notebook and debugging (read replotting things over and over), things just stop working (like linked figures don't respond to each other) or start doing weird things (axis jiggling around etc). This usually requires me to terminate the notebook and start over again, I am assuming the problem is that I am not closing the figures some unused/reused garbage variables in the background keep building up. Is there a better way to do things when debugging?
This is particularly a problem because sometimes if it not obvious if things stopped working because of the above reason, or because I have an actual bug in the code.
This is particularly a problem because sometimes if it not obvious if things stopped working because of the above reason, or because I have an actual bug in the code.
HoloViews? hvPlot? Datashader?
Panel?
In any case the only experience I've had like that is when I define variables in a Jupyter notebook and then redefine them later, inadvertently sharing bits of my figures between different cells.
Yes, I think that might be the problem - as sometimes I will have some variable names like 'temp' that get redefined again and again.
Or when I take the same figure and display it in different cells; sometimes the underlying streams should be shared, sometimes they should not, and it ends up violating my expectations. The answer in that case is generally to make a fresh copy of whatever I'm using, if I want it to be independent of something in a previous cell.
The times I've particularly noticed strange behavior is for multi-step pipelines for Datashader plots, where the same final figure is used in multiple cells. In such cases zooming in one of them affects the other, due to shared streams of zoom values. Definitely with Datashader pipelines it's important to create the pipeline again in each cell where you want it to run, so that they are independent. I can't think of examples where I've seen this without Datashader, but it could definitely happen with linked_selections or other deep-pipeline approaches.
"Restart and Run All" is definitely your friend. :-)
Regarding panel and holoviews - How would one go about ensuring that the zoom level on a plot is not reset when some property in the plot is changed. For example the Holoviz tutorial has an example in notebook 08_Advanced_Dashboards where the user can select the colormap for a population map. However, if one is zoomed in a region and changes the colormap the plot resets to global scale. Is there a way/flat to suppress this? (Should I ask this in discourse instead?)
Yes, ask on discourse instead. I don't remember what code we were using in 08, but e.g. https://examples.pyviz.org/datashader_dashboard/dashboard.html shouldn't behave like that, because the cmap gets updated in place.
It's easy to write code that simply redraws everything, but as you point out you do lose interactive state when you do that, so it's better if you can take the time to avoid that.
No; there's no particular difference in functionality between those two approaches. I've translated that notebook to use reactive functions; see https://anaconda.org/jbednar/dashboard_barewidgets/notebook (haven't ever published it anywhere else, I'm afraid!). That version uses the pn.depends decorator, but I was planning to update it for pn.bind (just introduced in Panel 0.10.1) if that's the one you're using (a trivial translation, but clearer I think).
:arrow_up: PR for Plotly map
Tiles support in HoloViews with datashade and link_selections support (holoviz/holoviews#4686).
That all looks well within the capabilities of GeoViews.
@jbednar , yep, looks like not supported: https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/geo.html?highlight=web%20map
That's not accurate, it's supported but requires a bit of knowledge about the internals:
url1 = "https://elevation.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/services/3DEPElevation/ImageServer/WMSServer?&service=WMS&request=GetMap&layers=3DEPElevation%3AHillshade%20Gray&styles=&format=image%2Fpng&transparent=false&version=1.3.0&width=256&height=256&crs=EPSG%3A3857&bbox={XMIN},{YMIN},{XMAX},{YMAX}"
url2 = 'https://datacube.services.geo.ca/ows/elevation?service=WMS&request=GetMap&layers=hrdsm-hillshade&styles=&format=image%2Fpng&transparent=false&version=1.3.0&width=256&height=256&crs=EPSG%3A3857&bbox={XMIN},{YMIN},{XMAX},{YMAX}'
hv.element.tiles.Wikipedia() * hv.Tiles(url1) * hv.Tiles(url2, extents=(-15673871.272045106,9568692.948851505,-15654303.3928041,9588260.828092515))
You may also have to set 'min_zoom', 'max_zoom' in the opts appropriately.
It's sort of documented here: http://geoviews.org/user_guide/Working_with_Bokeh.html
But even if you know about the URL format you still have to figure out how to supply it in the URL. I manually looked at the requests folium was making and then copied the URLs it was generating.
Hi, I tried to follow this link:
https://geoviews.org/gallery/bokeh/tile_sources.html#bokeh-gallery-tile-sources
But I got this error...
AttributeError: type object 'opts' has no attribute 'WMTS'
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