The use of Leaflet.awesome-markers

I would like to discuss the use of the Leaflet.awesome-markers library on folium.map.Icon. It isn’t maintain since 2014 (the last commit is from 2017, but only change the README.md) and has several opened issues and pull requests. The project has a lot of forks, but none of them is updated too.

I understand that open source is hard and you probably don’t have enough hands to handle the important issues and pull requests that Folium gets itself, so taking care of fancy icons is definitely not a priority.

But, having an old and unmaintained feature can make users frustrated (my case). The library itself is pretty small and simple and I believe would be great to incorporate it to Folium or at least to the organization. The greatest benefit is that would be much easier to have updates.

I would like to help. If you’re interest in my suggestions, I can do the work of moving the library to inside and help to maintain it.

[rougeth]

Sure, @ocefpaf already gave me access on the repo. @ocefpaf could do you enable the issues section on the fork (example)?

I will check the host options and once we have it ready and updated here, we can start working on new things like the CI.

Closing this one, thanks @Conengmo @ocefpaf!

[Conengmo]

Alright let’s do it. We need @ocefpaf to create a new project in python-visualization. Then we have to import the code. Is there any CI we can setup? There isn’t any in the original library, so we can come up with that later. @rougeth do you want to be a maintainer on the project?