[Maps] Profiler Tool in Kibana Maps

[jmp601]

Describe the feature: A profiler tool in kibana maps that allows you to strike a line across your data to get a quick visualization of your data. This tool makes more sense against polylines or polygons than raw points as you'd have to add a buffer parameter to accommodate points intuitively.

Describe a specific use case for the feature: Imagine getting a hydrographic surveys' profile by striking a line across a GeoTile or GeoHex aggregation. Or, traffic density analysis for a city and strike across those bins to get avg speed, etc. Another one I can think of is vessel positions aggregated into a geoline and striking across those lines to get a chart of their drafts (depth they draw traveling through a waterway).

Possible features:

• Draw one or more lines and cycle though those lines on the chart. In my example I have drawn 3.
• Chose which layer(s) you want to see on the output visualization.
• Choose the column you want to see from the layer on the visualion (depth in the below example).
• Hovering over the chart (or map) would highlight the map (or chart) of object being presented.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-gis (Team:Geo)

[nickpeihl]

It's almost possible to do something like this today with a Lens line chart and a Map added to a dashboard. In the screenshot below, I've used a bounding box spatial filter to draw the "line".

Limitations:

• The x-axis on the line chart is the longitude, so it only works for horizontal or vertical (latitude) profile lines.
• Only one spatial filter can be applied at a time, so only one line is displayed in the chart
• Spatial filter currently only supports polygons, not lines.

Thanks for opening the issue. I think we have a lot to consider if we implement this.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-presentation (Team:Presentation)

[jmp601]

If you were able to strike a line to obtain a profile, it would need to be sorted on the order in which said objects were crossed if that's a possibility.

[nreese]

In order to provide better transparency of priorities, issues that will not be prioritized within the next 24 months are being closed.

Tracking request in Maps ice box #154870