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Choroplethmap

Overview

The choroplethmap trace type is used to create choropleth maps on top of a MapLibre layer. It's a more advanced form of the standard choropleth trace, allowing for greater control over map projections, interactivity, and advanced map features like zooming and tilting.

With choroplethmap, you can visualize data across geographic regions on MapLibre maps, and customize the map's appearance using layers, color scales, and hover labels.

Common Uses

  • Geospatial Data Visualization: Displaying data on an interactive MapLibre map.
  • Thematic Mapping with Interactivity: Creating maps that can zoom, tilt, and rotate while visualizing variables like population or economic metrics.
  • Map Projections: Applying various MapLibre projections for advanced geographical data representation.

Check out the Attributes for the full set of configuration options

Examples

Common Configurations

Here's a simple choroplethmap map showing population density across different regions on a MapLibre layer:

You can copy this code below to create this chart in your project:

models:
  - name: country-population-data-map
    args:
      - echo
      - |
        iso_alpha,population_density
        USA,36
        CAN,4
        RUS,9
        CHN,153
        IND,450
traces:
  - name: Simple ChoroplethMapLibre Map
    model: ref(country-population-data-map
    props:
      type: choroplethmap
      geojson: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/geo-countries/master/data/countries.geojson"
      locations: ?{iso_alpha}
      z: ?{population_density}
      colorscale: "Blues"
      marker:
        opacity: 0.7
charts:
  - name: Simple ChoroplethMapLibre Chart
    traces:
      - ${ref(Simple ChoroplethMapLibre Map)}
    layout:
      title:
        text: Population Density by Country on MapLibre<br><sub>Data in Persons per Square Kilometer</sub>
      mapbox:
        style: "carto-positron"
        zoom: 1
        center:
          lat: 20
          lon: 0

This example shows a choropleth map on a MapLibre layer using a custom color scale, zoom, and center on Europe:

Here's the code:

models:
  - name: european-gdp-data
    args:
      - echo
      - |
        iso_alpha,gdp
        FRA,2716
        DEU,3846
        ITA,2001
        ESP,1419
        GBR,2827
traces:
  - name: ChoroplethMapLibre with Custom Colorscale Trace
    model: ${ref(european-gdp-data)}
    props:
      type: choroplethmap
      geojson: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/geo-countries/master/data/countries.geojson"
      locations: ?{iso_alpha}
      z: ?{gdp}
      colorscale: [[0, "rgb(255,245,240)"], [0.5, "rgb(252,146,114)"], [1, "rgb(165,15,21)"]]
      marker:
        opacity: 0.75
charts:
  - name: ChoroplethMapLibre with Custom Colorscale
    traces:
      - ${ref(ChoroplethMapLibre with Custom Colorscale Trace)}
    layout:
      title:
        text: GDP by Country in Europe<br><sub>Data in Billions of USD</sub>
      mapbox:
        style: "carto-positron"
        zoom: 3
        center:
          lat: 50
          lon: 10

Here's a choropleth map on a MapLibre layer that includes hover information for each country:

You can copy this code below to create this chart in your project:

models:
  - name: covid-data-map
    args:
      - echo
      - |
        iso_alpha,covid_cases,covid_deaths
        USA,33000000,600000
        BRA,20000000,550000
        IND,30000000,400000
        RUS,6000000,150000
        ZAF,2000000,60000
traces:
  - name: Interactive ChoroplethMapLibre with Hover Data Trace
    model: ${ref(covid-data-map)}
    props:
      type: choroplethmap
      geojson: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/geo-countries/master/data/countries.geojson"
      locations: ?{iso_alpha}
      z: ?{covid_cases}
      colorscale: "Reds"
      text: ?{covid_deaths}
      hovertemplate: "Cases: %{z}<br>Deaths: %{text}"
      marker:
        opacity: 0.8
charts:
  - name: Interactive ChoroplethMapLibre with Hover Data
    traces:
      - ${ref(Interactive ChoroplethMapLibre with Hover Data Trace)}
    layout:
      title:
        text: COVID-19 Cases by Country on MapLibre<br><sub>Hover to See Deaths Data</sub>
      mapbox:
        style: "carto-darkmatter"
        zoom: 2
        center:
          lat: 30
          lon: 0

A schema to validate plotly trace properties

Attributes

These attributes apply to traces where trace.props.type is set to choroplethmap. You would configure these attributes on the trace with the trace.props object. 

autocolorscale: boolean
below: 'string' #(1)!
coloraxis: string
colorbar:
  bgcolor: any
  bordercolor: any
  borderwidth: number
  exponentformat: any
  len: number
  lenmode: any
  minexponent: number
  nticks: integer
  orientation: any
  outlinecolor: any
  outlinewidth: number
  separatethousands: boolean
  showexponent: any
  showticklabels: boolean
  showtickprefix: any
  showticksuffix: any
  thickness: number
  thicknessmode: any
  tickangle: number
  tickcolor: any
  tickfont:
    color: any
    family: 'string' #(2)!
    lineposition: any
    shadow: 'string' #(3)!
    size: number
    style: any
    textcase: any
    variant: any
    weight: integer
  tickformat: 'string' #(4)!
  tickformatstops: array
  ticklabeloverflow: any
  ticklabelposition: any
  ticklabelstep: integer
  ticklen: number
  tickmode: any
  tickprefix: 'string' #(5)!
  ticks: any
  ticksuffix: 'string' #(6)!
  ticktext: array
  ticktextsrc: 'string' #(7)!
  tickvals: array
  tickvalssrc: 'string' #(8)!
  tickwidth: number
  title:
    font:
      color: any
      family: 'string' #(9)!
      lineposition: any
      shadow: 'string' #(10)!
      size: number
      style: any
      textcase: any
      variant: any
      weight: integer
    side: any
    text: 'string' #(11)!
  x: number
  xanchor: any
  xpad: number
  xref: any
  y: number
  yanchor: any
  ypad: number
  yref: any
colorscale: any
customdata: array
customdatasrc: 'string' #(12)!
featureidkey: 'string' #(13)!
hoverinfo: array
hoverinfosrc: 'string' #(14)!
hoverlabel:
  align: array
  alignsrc: 'string' #(15)!
  bgcolor: array
  bgcolorsrc: 'string' #(16)!
  bordercolor: array
  bordercolorsrc: 'string' #(17)!
  font:
    color: array
    colorsrc: 'string' #(18)!
    family: 'string | array' #(19)!
    familysrc: 'string' #(20)!
    lineposition: array
    linepositionsrc: 'string' #(21)!
    shadow: 'string | array' #(22)!
    shadowsrc: 'string' #(23)!
    size: array
    sizesrc: 'string' #(24)!
    style: array
    stylesrc: 'string' #(25)!
    textcase: array
    textcasesrc: 'string' #(26)!
    variant: array
    variantsrc: 'string' #(27)!
    weight: array
    weightsrc: 'string' #(28)!
  namelength: array
  namelengthsrc: 'string' #(29)!
hovertemplate: 'string | array' #(30)!
hovertemplatesrc: 'string' #(31)!
hovertext: 'string | array' #(32)!
hovertextsrc: 'string' #(33)!
ids: array
idssrc: 'string' #(34)!
legend: string
legendgroup: 'string' #(35)!
legendgrouptitle:
  font:
    color: any
    family: 'string' #(36)!
    lineposition: any
    shadow: 'string' #(37)!
    size: number
    style: any
    textcase: any
    variant: any
    weight: integer
  text: 'string' #(38)!
legendrank: number
legendwidth: number
locations: array
locationssrc: 'string' #(39)!
marker:
  line:
    color: array
    colorsrc: 'string' #(40)!
    width: array
    widthsrc: 'string' #(41)!
  opacity: array
  opacitysrc: 'string' #(42)!
metasrc: 'string' #(43)!
name: 'string' #(44)!
reversescale: boolean
selected:
  marker:
    opacity: number
showlegend: boolean
showscale: boolean
stream:
  maxpoints: number
  token: 'string' #(45)!
subplot: string
text: 'string | array' #(46)!
textsrc: 'string' #(47)!
type: choroplethmap
uid: 'string' #(48)!
unselected:
  marker:
    opacity: number
visible: any
z: array
zauto: boolean
zmax: number
zmid: number
zmin: number
zsrc: 'string' #(49)!
  1. Determines if the choropleth polygons will be inserted before the layer with the specified ID. By default, choroplethmap traces are placed above the water layers. If set to '', the layer will be inserted above every existing layer.
  2. HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser can only apply a font if it is available on the system where it runs. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the order in which to apply fonts if they aren't available.
  3. Sets the shape and color of the shadow behind text. auto places minimal shadow and applies contrast text font color. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-shadow for additional options.
  4. Sets the tick label formatting rule using d3 formatting mini-languages which are very similar to those in Python. For numbers, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format. And for dates see: https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format. We add two items to d3's date formatter: %h for half of the year as a decimal number as well as %{n}f for fractional seconds with n digits. For example, 2016-10-13 09:15:23.456 with tickformat %H~%M~%S.%2f would display 09~15~23.46
  5. Sets a tick label prefix.
  6. Sets a tick label suffix.
  7. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for ticktext.
  8. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for tickvals.
  9. HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser can only apply a font if it is available on the system where it runs. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the order in which to apply fonts if they aren't available.
  10. Sets the shape and color of the shadow behind text. auto places minimal shadow and applies contrast text font color. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-shadow for additional options.
  11. Sets the title of the color bar.
  12. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for customdata.
  13. Sets the key in GeoJSON features which is used as id to match the items included in the locations array. Support nested property, for example properties.name.
  14. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for hoverinfo.
  15. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for align.
  16. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for bgcolor.
  17. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for bordercolor.
  18. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for color.
  19. HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser can only apply a font if it is available on the system where it runs. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the order in which to apply fonts if they aren't available.
  20. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for family.
  21. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for lineposition.
  22. Sets the shape and color of the shadow behind text. auto places minimal shadow and applies contrast text font color. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-shadow for additional options.
  23. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for shadow.
  24. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for size.
  25. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for style.
  26. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for textcase.
  27. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for variant.
  28. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for weight.
  29. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for namelength.
  30. Template string used for rendering the information that appear on hover box. Note that this will override hoverinfo. Variables are inserted using %{variable}, for example "y: %{y}" as well as %{xother}, {%xother}, {%_xother}, {%xother_}. When showing info for several points, xother will be added to those with different x positions from the first point. An underscore before or after (x|y)other will add a space on that side, only when this field is shown. Numbers are formatted using d3-format's syntax %{variable:d3-format}, for example "Price: %{y:$.2f}". https://github.com/d3/d3-format/tree/v1.4.5#d3-format for details on the formatting syntax. Dates are formatted using d3-time-format's syntax %{variable|d3-time-format}, for example "Day: %{2019-01-01|%A}". https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format/tree/v2.2.3#locale_format for details on the date formatting syntax. The variables available in hovertemplate are the ones emitted as event data described at this link https://plotly.com/javascript/plotlyjs-events/#event-data. Additionally, every attributes that can be specified per-point (the ones that are arrayOk: true) are available. Finally, the template string has access to variable properties Anything contained in tag <extra> is displayed in the secondary box, for example "{fullData.name}". To hide the secondary box completely, use an empty tag <extra></extra>.
  31. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for hovertemplate.
  32. Same as text.
  33. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for hovertext.
  34. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for ids.
  35. Sets the legend group for this trace. Traces and shapes part of the same legend group hide/show at the same time when toggling legend items.
  36. HTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser can only apply a font if it is available on the system where it runs. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the order in which to apply fonts if they aren't available.
  37. Sets the shape and color of the shadow behind text. auto places minimal shadow and applies contrast text font color. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-shadow for additional options.
  38. Sets the title of the legend group.
  39. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for locations.
  40. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for color.
  41. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for width.
  42. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for opacity.
  43. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for meta.
  44. Sets the trace name. The trace name appears as the legend item and on hover.
  45. The stream id number links a data trace on a plot with a stream. See https://chart-studio.plotly.com/settings for more details.
  46. Sets the text elements associated with each location.
  47. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for text.
  48. Assign an id to this trace, Use this to provide object constancy between traces during animations and transitions.
  49. Sets the source reference on Chart Studio Cloud for z.