There's not support for maps yet. But if someone wanted to develop a package for handling geographical data, I'd be keen to make it plot-able. I've not worked with this sort of data before, but I'm guessing the main things we'd need are map projections and a database of borders of countries, provinces, states, etc.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014, at 07:31 AM, Tim Holy wrote: > Gadfly has a d3 backend. But others will have to comment about whether it > can > handle the mapping part. > > --Tim > > On Friday, June 20, 2014 06:43:25 AM Mikayla Thompson wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm new to Julia and trying it out for some data analysis projects with > > twitter data. > > > > In particular, I'd like to plot tweets to a map, using a different > > color/icon for various categories of tweet. It'd also be useful to color > > various regions. > > > > Something similar to or wrapping d3.js would be perfect. I don't *need* the > > animation/interactive features, but they'd be useful if available. So far, > > I haven't been able to find any Julia packages that might work for > > something like this. Am I just overlooking it, or is there no such > > functionality at this point? > > > > I'm aware that there is the matplotlib route. I haven't had much luck in > > python with mapping using matplotlib, so I'm eager for an alternative. > > However, is that the most practical choice at this point? > > > > Thanks! > > --Mikayla >
