# GeoViews Roadmap, as of 6/2018 ¶

GeoViews is under continuous development and improvement, with priorities determined by user input, the needs of current projects, and external funding.

Immediate, already funded priorities for 2018 include:

1. Ongoing maintenance, improved documentation and examples : As always, there are various bugs and usability issues reported on the issue tracker, and we will address these as time permits.
2. Improved imaging, simulation, machine learning, and Earth science workflows : Support for working with image and other multidimensional data for visualization and machine-learning applications, including on HPC systems.
3. Improvements to map drawing tools : - Better support for collecting annotations on top of maps - other usability improvements
4. Simpler deployment of large-scale visualizations : Automatic generation of slippy-map tiles for exploration of large datasets using standard web servers
5. Rasterization of polygons : A very common problem in GIS applications is combining gridded and geometry data. As part of ongoing work, datashader will gain the ability to rasterize arbitrary geometries by value or simply as boolean masks.

Other things we’d like to see in GeoViews or in other supporting tools in the PyViz ecosystem include:

1. Integrating 3D earth rendering into GeoViews : We have a first prototype for a CesiumJS backend for rendering Google-Earth-style plots , but much more work is needed to make it practical for real use.
2. Toolbox for GIS primitives : Existing GIS packages provide canned domain-specific functionality, such as computing vegetation indexes and other common manipulations of Earth-related data. It would be helpful to provide a well-tested collection of these common operations built on the PyViz stack so that it can be a more “drop-in” replacement for proprietary GIS systems. Examples of desirable functionality:
• Fast geographic operations for Datashader
• Zonal statistics for an ROI
• Percentage area by category
• Summary stats
• Hydrology tools
• Flow accumulation
• Flow direction
• Watershed
• Euclidean distance based on input geometry (lines / polygons / points)
• Suitability analysis (combining multiple binary aggregates into a yes/no composite)
• Generate contours from aggregate
• Calculate viewshed from aggregate
• Color ramps for showing elevation
• Bokeh interfaces for external geo data sources (GPX, KML, WMS)
• Datashader-based WMS Data Server (aggregating an incoming WMS query on demand)
3. Better support for working with remote datasets and remote computation. Earth-related datasets tend to be large and remote, and we need to make examples of best practice for working with such datasets conveniently and with reasonable performance.
4. Integration with other tools like [OpenLayers]( https://openlayers.org/ ), [Deck.GL]( http://uber.github.io/deck.gl ), and [Leaflet]( https://leafletjs.com/ ) (e.g. via [Folium]( https://github.com/python-visualization/folium )).
5. Scalable rasterization of raster data, as well as recti- and curvi-linear grids, implemented using Dask and Numba in Datashader and exposed in HoloViews and GeoViews as fast distributed rendering for Image and QuadMesh objects.
6. Support for [cartograms]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram ), presumably via an interface to an external program or library.

If any of the functionality above is interesting to you (or you have ideas of your own!) and can offer help with implementation, please open an issue on this repository. And if you are lucky enough to be in a position to fund our developers to work on it, please contact  sales@anaconda.com  .