More detail on use case

Author: mfisher87

explore-multiple-datasets-together/index.md

@@ -1,20 +1,38 @@
 # Explore multiple datasets together
 
+## Current situation
+
+The user experience for exploring datasets currently drives many Jupyter users to open
+QGIS or ArcGIS to explore their data, and they report friction switching between
+applications.
+
+Some current tools aren't quite meeting user needs, e.g.:
+
+* `my_gdf.explore()`: Only shows one dataset at a time
+* `my_dataarray.plot()`: Shows one dataset, non-interactive
+* JupyterGIS: Symbology configuration is manual and low-level
+* `ipyleaflet`: Low-level. Can't render Xarray DataArrays dynamically (see possible
+  solution: <https://github.com/davidbrochart/xarray_leaflet>)
+
+
+## Proposed improvement
+
 Prototype: <https://github.com/geojupyter/jupyter-microgis>
 
-* Add layers to a map for exploration from a Jupyter Notebook:
+Add layers to a map for exploration within a Jupyter Notebook:
 
-  ```python
-  from ... import explore
+```python
+from ... import explore
 
-  explore(
+explore(
     my_xarray_dataarray,
     {'data': my_geodataframe, 'symbology': 'choropleth'},
-  )
-  ```
-    * Support rioxarray DataArrays
-    * Support geopandas GeoDataFrames
-    * Maybe: Support WMTS?
+)
+```
+
+* Support rioxarray DataArrays
+* Support geopandas GeoDataFrames
+* Maybe: Support WMTS?
 * Support some curated default symbology options
     * Choropleth: number of steps, classification mode, ?
     * Symbol map: shape, min/max size, ...
@@ -34,3 +52,12 @@ Prototype: <https://github.com/geojupyter/jupyter-microgis>
     * Plain language search
     * Produce Python one-liners to bring that dataset into their notebook, e.g. `geopandas.read_file(...)` and `xarray.open_mfdataset(...)`
 * Display the data on slippy map widget (e.g. DeckGL)
+
+
+## Questions
+
+### Is this `leafmap`?
+
+Is this idea basically [`leafmap`](https://leafmap.org/)?
+If we add support to directly visualize xarray datasets with TiTiler in leafmap, does
+that meet the goals of this use case?