Addon:HeatmapWebReport
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Heatmap is a web report which creates an interactive map containing a heatmap generated from Gramps event place data.
Contents
Usage
Once this Report addon has been installed, Heatmap web pages can be generated from the Graphical User Interface or the Book interface. Report only looks for
Places found within a subset of the
Events related to a group of
People.
The webpage contains an embedded list of GPS coordinates for places with the number of Events occurring at each place. The list is set up for output to the Heatmapping overlay feature of a selected Web map service.
To create a Heatmap select menu Reports ▼ Web Pages ▶ Heatmap...
Dialog tabs
The Heatmap report dialog has the following three tabs:
- General
- Events
- Advanced
General tab
This tab allows the following options to be selected:
- Filter: defaults to restrict
Person results to match the "Ancestors of <selected person>" filter.
Other filters include the "Descendants of <selected person>" or any of the custom filter for the Person category. - Person: Sets the
<selected person>for the filter.
This defaults to the currently Active Person.
Select Existing button allows the <selected person>to be re-designated.
The Share list is initially filtered to the current Active Person, Home Person and any bookmarked persons.
Show all checkbox allows choosing from an unfiltered People list.
- Map tiles: Changes the Map Service providing the HeatMap overlay processing and the appearance of the map backdrop.
Map Service selections include:- OpenStreetMap
- Stamen Terrain
- Stamen Toner
- Stamen Watercolor
- CartoDB Positron
- CartoDB DarkMatter
- Filepath: The file directory where the Web Page file should be saved.
- File name: The file name. (Only allows letters A-Z, a-z, numbers 0-9 and the characters space, underline and hyphen)
Event types tab
This tab allows selects following options to be selected:
- Birth If selected, the report plots Birth event Place data as heatmap datapoints.
- Death If selected, the report plots Death event Place data as heatmap datapoints.
- Residence If selected, the report plots Residence event Place data as heatmap datapoints.
- Occupation If selected, the report plots Occupation event Place data as heatmap datapoints.
Once you have selected your options, pressing OK begins the preparation and generation of the Web Page. No progress bar or notification will be shown. Open the Web Page in any browser with internet access.
Advanced tab
This tab allows selects following options to be selected:
- Enable custom start position If selected, the map centers on a specific location and zoom scale.
- Start latitude: +90 (north pole) to -90 (south pole). The central latitude for a displayed map.
- Start longitude: -180 to 0 for the western hemisphere and 0 to +180 for the eastern hemisphere. The central longitude for a displayed map.
- Start zoom: 1 to 18 [8 default]. 1 shows the entire planet surface in about 5 inches square.
Limits tab
- Enable map limits If selected, the map is restricted to a range of zoom scales and a viewing window.
- Min. zoom: 1 to 18 [1 default]. Limits the zoom out scale that a map rendering will accept.
- Max. zoom: 1 to 18 [14 default]. Limits the zoom in scale that a map rendering will accept.
- Upper left corner latitude: +90 (north pole) to -90 (south pole). The upper latitudinal limit for scrolling a displayed map.
- Upper left corner longitude: -180 to 0 for the western hemisphere and 0 to +180 for the eastern hemisphere. The leftmost longitudinal limit for scrolling a displayed map.
- Lower right corner latitude: +90 (north pole) to -90 (south pole). The lower latitudinal limit for scrolling a displayed map.
- Lower right corner longitude: -180 to 0 for the western hemisphere and 0 to +180 for the eastern hemisphere. The rightmost longitudinal limit for scrolling a displayed map.
- Render custom map limit border If selected, a semi-transparent blue polygon illustrates the limits of the view window box. (Shows as a rectangle for standard Mercator Projection of the globe.)
Issues
- Help button goes to https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_6.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Reports#Heatmap
See also
- GitHub pre-release: New web report (Heatmap) #470
- Discourse forum thread
- Leaflet
- Gramps addons by Matthias Kemmer
- Addons web catalog
- Heatmap Web Report
- Avatar Generator
- Event Description Editor
- Number Of Ancestors Quick View
- Family Relationship
- Media Report
- Double Cousin Report
- Set Privacy Tool
- Add/Remove Tag Tool
- FilterRules : Plugin Manager Rulebook Collection 1
- People related to <filter>
- People with events with a selected role
- Families with Events with a selected role
- Source matching parameters
- People Separated less than <N> degrees of <Home person>
- People Separated less than <N> degrees of <person>
- Events of families matching a <family filter>
- Families matching <event filter>
- People who are part of families matching <filter>
- Filter people by their age at death
- Match associations of <person filter>
- People with multiple parent records
- FilterRules2 : Plugin Manager Rulebook Collection 2
- Matrilineal progenitrix of <person>
- Mitochondrial inheritance of <filter>
- Mitochondrial inheritance of <person>
- Patrilineal progenitor of <person>
- X-chromosomal ancestors of <person>
- X-chromosomal descendants of <person>
- Y-chromosomal inheritance of <person filter>
- Y-chromosomal inheritance of <person>


