Magic to embed maps in notebooks

[Tony Hirst]

Whilst trying to show folk how easy it was to embed interactive maps in notebooks using things like folium, I kept getting the response that it still required code familiarity which would be a blocker to some. So I wondered whether magic might be a way to try to simplify it.

Example magic here: https://github.com/psychemedia/ipython_magic_folium

--tony

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 7:19:28 AM UTC+13, Tony Hirst wrote:

Whilst trying to show folk how easy it was to embed interactive maps in notebooks using things like folium, I kept getting the response that it still required code familiarity which would be a blocker to some. So I wondered whether magic might be a way to try to simplify it.

Example magic here: https://github.com/psychemedia/ipython_magic_folium

Cool. Can you have other stuff in the same cell? E.g.

    ... stuff before ...

    %folium ...

   ... stuff after ...

If not, let me suggest making it a cell magic rather than a line magic. Then you can also use the rest of the cell contents for purposes such as adding overlays.

[Tim Head]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:37 AM Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawren...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, December 11, 2017 at 7:19:28 AM UTC+13, Tony Hirst wrote:

Whilst trying to show folk how easy it was to embed interactive maps in notebooks using things like folium, I kept getting the response that it still required code familiarity which would be a blocker to some. So I wondered whether magic might be a way to try to simplify it.

Take a look at what nteract did with GeoJSON rendering: https://github.com/nteract/nteract/#overview I've not used it for "real" but it looks quite nice for "let me see what this will look like". Maybe someone knows how well this mimetype is rendered in jupyter notebook/lab?

T

[Tony Hirst]

@Lawrence

Yeah, I was wondering that... I guess it could return the map object to let you play with it, or pass a map object into it, which would let you build up layers/

Re: cell magic, I wasn't clear in my own mind how that would work any simpler than just writing py/folium statements?

@Tim

I keep forgetting to look to nteract... thx for reminder

--tony

[Tony Hirst]

Okay - added layering - pass a map in as a variable name  pointing to a map in the -b argument:

x = %folium_map -m 52.0250,-0.7084,"My marker"

%folium_map -b x -m 52.02,-0.708,"My other marker"