Kepler Geospatial MapsInteractive maps inside Grafana

kepler.gl running in the panel. Spatio-temporal data from any Grafana data source.

Your query is the configuration

Name a column recognisably and the panel builds the layer. lat/lng, time, trip id, geometry, H3, origin–destination pairs, a bearing and velocity components are all detected, and every one is overridable per query.

How detection works

Geometry straight from the database

GeoJSON, WKT, or raw WKB/EWKB hex — so a plain SELECT geom from PostGIS renders with no ST_AsGeoJSON around it.

Geometry

Trajectories and flows, built for you

A query with a trip id and a time becomes an animated Trip layer. A flat origin–destination table becomes an animated flow map. Neither needs a layer configured by hand.

Trajectories

Anything with a bearing, drawn as itself

A position and a heading become one mark per row — a fleet, a set of vessels, a network of stations — from over a thousand bundled shapes, or a picture per row. A grid of velocities becomes animated streamlines, arrows or meteorological wind barbs instead.

Symbols

Satellite imagery, and its clock

A query that returns a link to a COG draws it, one that names a WMS draws that, and a .pmtiles archive draws with no server at all. One row per date turns the map's time widget into the scene selector — dragging it changes the picture without re-running the query or moving the frame.

Imagery over time

Wired into the dashboard, both ways

The time picker drives the map's timeline and optionally the other way round. Map filters, clicks, the viewport and drawn areas all publish to dashboard variables, so the map filters every other panel — and whatever is selected is ringed on the map, on a shared link as well.

Cross-filtering

Base maps with no account

OpenFreeMap's five and CARTO's three with no key, Esri's satellite and topographic, and two of those with real elevation. Or point it at a style.json on your own network for an air-gapped install.

Base maps

All of kepler.gl, in the panel

The full layer, filter, interaction and effects UI is live — this is kepler itself, not a reimplementation. We document the seams; kepler documents its own panel.

What differs here

Dashboards built with it

Six of them, each one a Grafana dashboard and nothing else — no account, no Mapbox token, no hosted service rendering the map. Every picture here is the panel drawing rows a query returned.

Most of them are running live on pacha.ubica.dev, along with some forty more, on a public Grafana that lets anyone in as a read-only viewer. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for: open one, drag its timeline, draw on the map. Several are labelled in Spanish; the maps are the point.

Global monthly temperature from a Zarr store, with a rectangle drawn over the Mediterranean and the mean, minimum and maximum beside it

Zarr, drawn and measured

A Zarr store rendered live, and the rectangle drawn on the map measured in the same month the layer is showing — mean, minimum and maximum, from one request.

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