Interactive Mapping

plotly supports two different types of maps.

• Mapbox maps are tile-based maps that are rendered using tiles that join together to form the map plot.

• Geo maps are outline-based maps that are rendered using the layout.geo object that contains map configuration information.

Both of those map types support point and polygon data.

	Point Data	Polygon Data
Outline Map (or Geo Map)	Draw a base map / base layer Point data is similar to a scatter plot px.scatter_geo()	Draw base map / base layer with polygons Join attribute data to the polygons px.choropleth()
Tile (or mapbox) map	Use mapbox tiles for base map / base layer Point data is similar to a scatter plot px.scatter_mapbox()	Use mapbox tiles for base map / base layer Join attribute data to the polygons px.choropleth_mapbox()

Section Table of Contents

• Outline Maps
  • Outline Maps & Point Data
  • Outline Maps & Polygon Data
• Tile Maps
  • Tile Maps & Base Layers
  • Tile Maps & Point Data
  • Tile Maps & Polygon Data