create a geeplot dedicated lib ?

[12rambau]

I was working on the ipygee package to create a bokeh interactive mapping between plotting functionalities and EE and I realize I was basically coding the same functions I coded in geetools but with a bokeh flavor. I then ask myself "what are other people using ?" and realized every single personn I know coding in python has it's own favorite plotting tool (among all i tend to think bqplot, bokeh, matplotlib and seaborn are the most used).

That being said what do you think if we externalize the plotting capabilities to a dedicated geeplot lib. This lib would create 1 extention file per lib we want to support with all object extentions coded into 1 single place. I would gladely work on bokeh and matplotlib that are basically already done and anyone else could work on its favorite personal interpretation.

This lib would be super lightweight and only install the extention the user wants to use like pip install geeplot[matplotlib].

@fitoprincipe any opinion ?

[fitoprincipe]

I totally love it 😃. I started this: https://github.com/fitoprincipe/pygalgee but didn't have time to continue. TBH I'm pretty new to this "package of packages" that share a common purpose, but I really like it. Is there a way to block the users from doing pip install geeplot?

[12rambau]

no you cannot but it will not be sufficient to load any graph so you'll get an dedicated import error. I'll try to have a look next WE when I have time I think that's a good idea to work on something like the one you get when you try to plot a geodataframe without installing matplotlib first.