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Heatmap report (Stamen Design Terrain map tiles)

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.

The Graphical User Interface

Select Menu Reports ▼ Web Pages ▶ Heatmap...

The Options tab

 
Heatmap Options 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.
     
    Heatmap Select Person dialog
     Share button allows the <selected person> to be re-selected.
    The Share list is initially filtered to the current Active Person, Home Person or any bookmarked persons.
    Show all checkbox allows choosing from an unfiltered People list.
  • Map tiles: Changes Map service providing the appearance of the map backdrop and overlay processing.
  • 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)


The Event types tab

 
Heatmap 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.

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