Hi,
I am trying to convert the marker type on my map from the circle to a more neat configuration (See screenshot below). I was thinking connected hexagons. But I can’t find anything about being able to change the marker symbol. I saw that you can do this with just plotly but mapbox only has a set of defined marker symbols, but these symbols are not what I am looking for as they are more like icons then shapes. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Hey @devinburke0 I created a PR to allow hexagonal binning of data with mapbox, @nicolaskruchten seemed pretty enthusiastic about it so hopefully it can get merged in time for Plotly 4.9 release 
Thats fantastic to hear! 4.9 should be coming out here in the next few weeks right?
@nicolaskruchten is pretty enthusiastic, yes! 4.9 is likely coming out next week
@devinburke0 This has just been merged in plotly.py master and should be released with 4.9 pretty soon 
@RenaudLN’s contribution is now released as part of 4.9! Check out the docs here https://plotly.com/python/hexbin-mapbox/
@nicolaskruchten @RenaudLN fantastic! thanks for letting me know
edit: wow! worked brilliantly, thank you so much for taking the time to build this
