topic Re: Feature request: enhance mapping.choropleth functionality? in Splunk Search

Feature request: enhance mapping.choropleth functionality?

aaron_sakovich — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:41:41 GMT

Currently, choropleth maps have an annoying feature where if you're using sequential coloring of geometries, the minimum color is always white (0xFFFFFF) and whatever is specified in the source for .minimumColor is ignored. Divergent coloring allows you to specify a .minimumColor, but it still routes the midpoint through white. On maps either without colorful tiles specified or with white backgrounds, having a white color for your data makes the visualization difficult, to say the least.

Would it be possible to change the functionality of mapping.choroplethLayer.colorMode and .minimumColor such that when in sequential mode, the minimum color can be specified, as shown in the following example?

<option name="mapping.choroplethLayer.colorMode">sequential</option>
<option name="mapping.choroplethLayer.maximumColor">0x0000FF</option>
<option name="mapping.choroplethLayer.minimumColor">0x00FF00</option>

(Bonus points, it would be nice if there were a mapping.choroplethLayer.middleColor for divergent coloring.)

There are lots of cases documented here in Answers of people who would be able to benefit from this functionality, and some where people have had to resort to kludges to work around the lack of this feature.

(Ref: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.2/Viz/PanelreferenceforSimplifiedXML#map)

Re: Feature request: enhance mapping.choropleth functionality?

woodcock — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:08:11 GMT

Open a P0 support case; these are treated as Enhancement Requests by Splunk.

Re: Feature request: enhance mapping.choropleth functionality?

richgalloway — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 21:39:41 GMT

@aaron_sakovich Consider submitting this feature request at https://ideas.splunk.com/

Re: Feature request: enhance mapping.choropleth functionality?

aaron_sakovich — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:48:03 GMT

Thanks. Done.
https://ideas.splunk.com/ideas/EID-I-51

Re: Feature request: enhance mapping.choropleth functionality?

woodcock — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:03:26 GMT

Splunk has a new portal for feature/enhancement requests:
https://ideas.splunk.com