Feature Request: Link w open streetmaps

[gmerritt123]

Hi, apologies in advance if this is not the right place to make a request.

I'm a hydrogeologist and have started using ipyvoume to visualize groundwater flow from where it reaches the water table ("groundwater recharge") to where it reaches a receptor - i.e. a pumping well or a surface water feature. The main draws for me using your library are that I can add widgets to let the user visualize the flow paths by travel time, groundwater velocity, groundwater flux etc, and also that i can embed the resulting widget state into a standalone html that's easy to send to clients.

All that said, I'm dreaming of being able to pull an image/raster of open source mapping for a certain domain (like openstreets), using rasterio or a gis library align projection, and additing the image to my 3d drawing as a mesh object, with the height given as the ground surface elevation, so it would look like a satellite map with texture. I've attached an example of what I've got going in case this description doesn't make sense. The viridis-themed points are the massless particles (i.e. hypothetical raindrops reaching the water table), that get subjected to a discrete 3d velocity field as simulated by a groundwater model. The blue points are rivers or creeks etc, the cylinders are well screens (underground). You can thus visualize the journey of groundwater from this particular recharge location to the various receptors, be they wells or surface water. I'm dreaming of being able to give clients something like this but with satellite imagery on the top.

How crazy an effort would this be to implement, what approach would you take, and how can I help? I'm far from developer in terms of coding ability (engineering degree with zero comp-sci background, self taught in python with maybe 3 years worth of hands on experience primarily in data manipulation/visualization) but I'm eager to learn/contribute if I can.

3d_Activa.zip