Thanks a lot for the feedback guys. Simply using interpolation to do the
smoothing makes a lot of sense! Thanks Simone. I am going to experiment a
bit more and I’ll come back with my findings.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:09 AM Simone Giannecchini <
simone.giannecch...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:

> Ciao Justin,
> adding to Andrea's, please, read below...
>
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 7:56 PM, Andrea Aime
> <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Justin Deoliveira <jdeol...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I’m working on a project to expose Solr’s heatmap capability through
> >> GeoServer. You can find details about Solr heatmaps here:
> >>
> >>     https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Spatial+Search
> >> (search for “Heatmap Faceting”.
> >>
> >> But the gist of it is this: If you have a spatial field that uses the
> >> recursive prefix tree type (ie. geohash) for indexing then it’s easy
> using
> >> Solr’s facetting infrastructure to generate a heatmap grid. What you get
> >> back from Solr is a 2D array representing the geohash grid, where each
> value
> >> is a count of documents that intersect that grid cell. Applying some
> >> symbolization you can get something that looks like this:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/voyagersearch/leaflet-solr-heatmap/master/sample.png
> >>
> >> The above screen shot comes from a leaflet plugin that visualizes the
> >> heatmap directly in the browser. I would like to add a similar looking
> >> visualization for GeoTools/GeoServer.
> >>
> >> My first thought was to expose this as a new type of coverage reader,
> >> since the data is simple grid it falls into the model quite easily. The
> >> major benefit of this approach is that becomes trivial to configure in
> >> GeoServer and easy to style using all of the existing raster symbology
> >> support. I’m interested to hear if others think this is a good approach.
> >
> >
> > I believe it is. You might want have a look at how the sde coverage
> reader
> > was setup, to share the same connection
> > info as a vector solr store (downside, you first have to setup a vector
> > store).
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> If that sounds good my plan was to add this to the existing solr module.
> >> It won’t add any new dependencies aside from a dependency on the
> coverage
> >> module.
> >>
> >> @Andrea: you’re listed as the module maintainer… although if I recall
> >> correctly we agreed to co-maintain the module?
> >
> >
> > We did, just add yourself in the pom :-)
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a prototype working so if that all sounds good I’ll push up a
> >> branch for folks to look at.
> >
> >
> > Great
> >
> >>
> >> One thing I am particular eager to get some feed back on is how to best
> >> achieve the blur affect that makes heatmaps look “
> >> pretty”. At the moment what I have done is baked in a parameter to the
> >> coverage format that specifies a blur radius and then when reading the
> >> coverage I run it through the Convolve operation to achieve the desired
> >> affect. It would be ideal if this could be done at symbolization time.
> I’m
> >> wondering if we currently have any way to define a blur or some similar
> >> effect at rendering time with sld? Would a rendering transform work?
> >
> >
> > I don't think we have a blur operation, a rendering transform would
> likely
> > do the trick with the smallest effort.
> > In an ideal world, it would be nice to have a FTS level vendor parameter
> to
> > perform blurring just like we do color composition
> > but I guess that might be more complex to implement.
>
> Thinking...
> I had a quick look at the output of the SOLR heatmap and (as I
> expected) what we get from it are numbers.
>
> To make this look pretty you might want to perform smooting even by
> simply doing a bilinear or bicubic interpolation, you do not really
> need anything as fancy as a kernel operation.
> For this we could use the existing scale rendering transformation that
> also supports interpolation as a parameter; it should work by doing an
> identity transform with higher order interpolation (biliner or
> bicubic).
>
> Next step would be to apply a color map on top.
>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrea
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