Scattermapbox - marker symbol location pin

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1

Hi Team,

I am trying plot a map in which I want the co-ordinates to displayed as a replica of google map
How do change the default symbol from circle to location pin. Can you please provide an example of the symbol = “location pin”

2

Hi @ashti,

Welcome to forum! The mapbox symbol for ‘location pin’ is symbol ='marker', but the marker_color='red', for example, has no effect. Mapbox ‘marker’ is 'black by default.

Example:

mapboxt = open(".mapbox_token").read().rstrip() #my mapbox_access_token 
lats = [52.370216, 53.2191696,  50.851368, 51.8125626]
lons = [4.895168,  6.5666699, 5.690973, 5.8372264 ]
scatt = go.Scattermapbox(
            lat=lats,
            lon=lons,
            mode='markers',
            hovertext=['Amsterdam', 'Groningen',  'Maastricht', 'Nijmegen'],  
            hoverinfo='text',                 
            below='',                 
            marker=dict(symbol ='marker', size=15, color='blue'))
layout = go.Layout(title_text ='Pin location at a few cities in Netherlands', 
                   title_x =0.5, width=750, height=700,
                   mapbox = dict(center= dict(lat=52.370216, lon=4.895168),            
                                 accesstoken= mapboxt,
                                 zoom=6,
                                 style="light"
                               ))

fig=go.Figure(data=[ scatt], layout =layout)

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For more symbols see this discussion: Scattermapbox marker with no fill

3

Thank you for this. Can we change the location color pin to red instead of black…

4

There are other marker options as well which can be seen in : https://labs.mapbox.com/maki-icons/
marker-15.svg,marker-stroked.svg. Whats the right syntax to use them in the code…I am assuming 11 and 15 are the size properties

5

  1. No, unfortunately we can’t change the color.

  2. The marker size displayed in the maki table must be omitted when you define symbol ='some-icon'

6

@ashti

I realized that it is possible to define custom location pins, but not as svg paths. I defined them here https://plot.ly/~empet/15362/custom-location-pins/#/ as mapbox layers (https://plot.ly/python/mapbox-layers/) from geojson sources.