Plotly Maps

On another page I was saying how I quite like the charting products of Plotly. Their free open source library has some other features such as some basic mapping capabilities. I'm not going to say that they are the best option out there, but I thought that with my experience of mapping technologies, I should really take a look and see how it works with their library.

In all honesty I can see how this can lead to some basic maps but really going beyond that would be tricky. I initially created a simple raster map (based on Open Street Map) with a simple list of points (music venues) and labels (using mapbox) and that was not a big challenge. But the little features I wanted to add such as the ability to style the markers did make me struggle (and others too judging by posts). However this very simple demo just shows how it is possible to display such a map and then I added point click handling to display basic details of the venue clicked.