Mapbox
13 Oct 2021
Projecting Rasters for Plotly Mapbox Plots
I like using Plotly to create interactive plots and maps straight from Python. I find it more intuitive than Bokeh’s API. When combined with Plotly’s sister library Dash, the pair can be very powerful in creating both interactive and dynamic web based tools and visualizations.
While Bokeh has some native Datashader integration, including in the mapping components, the Plotly Mapbox mapping backend relies on Mapbox’s own image overlay capability to display arbitrary Datashader outputs. Plotly has very helpful documentation and includes this use case as an example.