Map

This page describes how to add bubbles to your folium map. It is done using the folium.Circle function. Each bubble has a size related to a specific value. Note that if you zoom on the map, the circle will get…

This page describes how to add markers to your folium map. It is done using the folium.Marker function. Note that you can custom the popup window of each marker with any html code!

During 300 days, I harvested every tweet containing the hashtags #surf, #kitesurf and #windsurf. Here is a map showing the localisation of these tweets. This projects is explained more in detail in the blog of the R graph gallery. This…

Here is an example of a choropleth map made using the Folium library. This example comes directly from the (awesome) documentation of this library. Note that you need 2 elements to build a chloropleth map. i/ A shape file in…

This page aims to explain how to add marker on a map made with the base map python library. It supposes you know how to make a basic map with base map, and that you have a pandas data frame…

This page describe how to add a connection line between 2 places on a map with python and the basemap library. Here we represent the connection between New York and London. Note that the line is not straight: it is…

The basemap library (closely linked with matplotlib) contains a database with several boundaries. Thus, it is easy to represent the limits of countries, states and counties, without having to load a shape file. Here is how to show these 3…

Instead of colouring your map with uniform colors, you can use layer for your background. Here are a few examples showing the layers that are available using python and basemap.

The earth being a sphere, it has always been tricky to represent it in 2 dimensions. Several projections exist, all with pro and con, and a few of them are implemented in matplotlib. Pick the one you need!  

    Charts #281 and #282 show how to make a world map with desired colors. But what if you want to look at a specific region of the globe? When you initialise the map, you can determine a specific…

The graph #281 shows how to draw a basic map with basemap. Here, I show how to improve its appearance. Each element that you draw on the map (boundary, continent, coast lines…) can be customised. Moreover, note that it is…

Here is the most basic map you can do with the basemap library of python. It allows to understand the basic use of this library. Always start by initialising the map with the Basemap() function. Then, add the elements your…

Folium is a python library allowing to call the Leaflet.js Javascript library. It allows you to manipulate your data with python and map them using the power of leaflet! It is really easy to call a map using this library.…