Lonboard Deck.gl visualiser support

[simonprovost]

Hi folks!

Happy to share this PR introducing Lonboard as a new set of visualisers (classic and heatmap-based) for UM. We haven’t done much on the visualisation side so far, relying solely on GeoPandas’ .explore() (Folium in the background). Lonboard, on the other hand, is actively maintained by developmentseed and leverages Deck.gl GPU rendering under the hood. It also offers many useful features such as richer controls, tilemap support, and more. PS: On top of a better map quality, ’m actually amazed not to see the usual blank-frame refresh during zooming in and out!

TLDR:

• Two new Lonboard-based visualisers
• Unified naming of our visualisers (w/ deprecation warning)
• Unit test suite for visualiser
• Better visualiser module documentation

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Folium (first map display) vs. Lonboard (Second map display)

0-Viz-comparison.mp4

Lonboard Heatmap on collisions study

1.Collisions_heatmapComp.mp4

Lonboard Classic on Pluto average n/o floors study

2.pluto_h3_lonboardComp.mp4

Cheers

Caution

Please, do not merge this PR before #84; once 84 is merged, I'll simply rebase to be up to date, then we'd be good.

Solving part of #51.

[simonprovost]

Closing as unplanned for the time being, in favour of https://autarkjs.org