improve simulation visualization results

[julled]

• Zoom in more to have less blank space at the image borders to have more detail view / autozoom to fit content
• Show hours or minutes instead of seconds in the colorbar
• Add discrete semitransparent points for positions every 1/4 of the simulation time
• TBC

Of course we need to have access to the simualtion result data for this to implement this.
But it was already suggested that we might add those improvements upstream, but its good to have it already here documented.
We can also implement this already on our side, and later up stream this.

[SteffenME]

• Show grid in DD MM SS format instead of DD.dd

[SteffenME]

We do have access to the data with :

lw.get_lonlats()

[julled]

We do have access to the data with :

lw.get_lonlats()

Does it gives us timeseriies data?

[SteffenME]

I created a new map rendering for the results. First edtion:

opendrift version for refrence:

comments are welcome

[SteffenME]

Even more pretty and complete:

[julled]

Wow! Looking very nice! Good job!

Where did you implement this?

[SteffenME]

Wow! Looking very nice! Good job!

Thanks

Where did you implement this?

Python on my local machine. I will branch it here

[SteffenME]

Next step is to use the heatmap

[julled]

Even more pretty and complete:

is minutes as resolution really fine enough?

[SteffenME]

often postion reports are precise to the minute. Also Minutes are easier to use. and when we zoom in further the zebra frame will be precise to 0.1 minute.

So its more about how much we can fit in the frame. We could produce a second image of the end points only that is more zoomed in.

[SteffenME]

check this out:

or this: