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Guide

How-to guides. Goal-oriented walkthroughs for the common tasks — each one is a numbered set of steps with a runnable example.

  • Plot a GeoDataFrame on the globe


    Drop a GeoDataFrame (or a plain DataFrame with lon/lat columns) onto the globe, styled by column values.

    How to plot a GeoDataFrame

  • Control a live viewer from Python


    Drive the clock, update data, pick entities, and receive click callbacks from the same process that runs show().

    How to control a live viewer

  • Render in a Jupyter notebook


    Turn a Viewer into an interactive widget with clock control and click events, no HTTP server required.

    How to use the Jupyter widget

  • Display rasters and large point data


    Add a local GeoTIFF as the base layer, or aggregate millions of points with datashader.

    How to display rasters and large point data

  • Clip and classify 3D Tiles


    Cut tilesets, models, or the globe with planes, and paint polygons that drape over terrain and buildings.

    How to clip and classify 3D Tiles