[BUG]: Odd polygon in land layer, extending into Canada on US choropleth
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 18.8k
- Forks
- 2.8k
- Avg merge
- 16h 26m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 21
Description
Description
There is an odd band extending from the northwest US into Canada when making a US choropleth. You can see this in the official documentation. I think this stems from the GeoJSON file included in Plotly. The file is very out of date, by the way, with changes to Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota and the Kusilvak Census Area in Alaska not being represented.
I can hide this band in the Python version using visible=False when calling update_geos().
Screenshots/Video
Steps to reproduce
- Create a new Python file
- Paste in the unemployment example from https://plotly.com/python/choropleth-maps/
- Run the python file
Notes
The unemployment example is here for completeness' sake:
from urllib.request import urlopen
import json
with urlopen('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/geojson-counties-fips.json') as response:
counties = json.load(response)
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/fips-unemp-16.csv",
dtype={"fips": str})
import plotly.express as px
fig = px.choropleth(df, geojson=counties, locations='fips', color='unemp',
color_continuous_scale="Viridis",
range_color=(0, 12),
scope="usa",
labels={'unemp':'unemployment rate'}
)
fig.update_layout(margin={"r":0,"t":0,"l":0,"b":0})
fig.show()
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the unemployment choropleth example and inspect the referenced geojson-counties-fips.json from the plotly/datasets repository. Compare the northwest geometry and the entries for Oglala Lakota County and Kusilvak Census Area; done means the example no longer shows the band and those county changes are represented.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100