PathLayer

Screenshot from North America roads example

lonboard.PathLayer

Bases: BaseArrowLayer

The PathLayer renders lists of coordinate points as extruded polylines with mitering.

Example:

From GeoPandas:

import geopandas as gpd
from lonboard import Map, PathLayer

# A GeoDataFrame with LineString or MultiLineString geometries
gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame()
layer = PathLayer.from_geopandas(
    gdf,
    get_color=[255, 0, 0],
    width_min_pixels=2,
)
m = Map(layer)

From geoarrow-rust:

from geoarrow.rust.core import read_parquet
from lonboard import Map, PathLayer

# Example: A GeoParquet file with LineString or MultiLineString geometries
table = read_parquet("path/to/file.parquet")
layer = PathLayer(
    table=table,
    get_color=[255, 0, 0],
    width_min_pixels=2,
)
m = Map(layer)

auto_highlight class-attribute instance-attribute

auto_highlight = tag(sync=True)

When true, the current object pointed to by the mouse pointer (when hovered over) is highlighted with highlightColor.

Requires pickable to be True.

• Type: bool
• Default: False

billboard class-attribute instance-attribute

billboard = tag(sync=True)

If True, extrude the path in screen space (width always faces the camera). If False, the width always faces up.

• Type: bool, optional
• Default: False

cap_rounded class-attribute instance-attribute

cap_rounded = tag(sync=True)

Type of caps. If True, draw round caps. Otherwise draw square caps.

• Type: bool, optional
• Default: False

extensions class-attribute instance-attribute

extensions = tag(sync=True, **widget_serialization)

A list of layer extension objects to add additional features to a layer.

get_color class-attribute instance-attribute

get_color = ColorAccessor(None, allow_none=True)

The color of each path in the format of [r, g, b, [a]]. Each channel is a number between 0-255 and a is 255 if not supplied.

• Type: ColorAccessor, optional
  • If a single list or tuple is provided, it is used as the color for all paths.
  • If a numpy or pyarrow array is provided, each value in the array will be used as the color for the path at the same row index.
• Default: [0, 0, 0, 255].

get_width class-attribute instance-attribute

get_width = FloatAccessor(None, allow_none=True)

The width of each path, in units specified by width_units (default 'meters').

• Type: FloatAccessor, optional
  • If a number is provided, it is used as the width for all paths.
  • If an array is provided, each value in the array will be used as the width for the path at the same row index.
• Default: 1.

joint_rounded class-attribute instance-attribute

joint_rounded = tag(sync=True)

Type of joint. If True, draw round joints. Otherwise draw miter joints.

• Type: bool, optional
• Default: False

miter_limit class-attribute instance-attribute

miter_limit = tag(sync=True)

The maximum extent of a joint in ratio to the stroke width. Only works if jointRounded is False.

• Type: float, optional
• Default: 4

opacity class-attribute instance-attribute

opacity = tag(sync=True)

The opacity of the layer.

• Type: float. Must range between 0 and 1.
• Default: 1

pickable class-attribute instance-attribute

pickable = tag(sync=True)

Whether the layer responds to mouse pointer picking events.

This must be set to True for tooltips and other interactive elements to be available. This can also be used to only allow picking on specific layers within a map instance.

Note that picking has some performance overhead in rendering. To get the absolute best rendering performance with large data (at the cost of removing interactivity), set this to False.

• Type: bool
• Default: True

selected_index class-attribute instance-attribute

selected_index = tag(sync=True)

The positional index of the most-recently clicked on row of data.

You can use this to access the full row of data from a GeoDataFrame

gdf.iloc[layer.selected_index]

Setting a value here from Python will do nothing. This attribute only exists to be updated from JavaScript on a map click. Note that pickable must be True (the default) on this layer for the JavaScript onClick handler to work; if pickable is set to False, selected_index will never update.

Note that you can use observe to call a function whenever a new value is received from JavaScript. Refer here for an example.

table class-attribute instance-attribute

table = PyarrowTableTrait(allowed_geometry_types={LINESTRING, MULTILINESTRING})

A GeoArrow table with a LineString or MultiLineString column.

This is the fastest way to plot data from an existing GeoArrow source, such as geoarrow-rust or geoarrow-pyarrow.

If you have a GeoPandas GeoDataFrame, use [from_geopandas][lonboard.PathLayer.from_geopandas] instead.

visible class-attribute instance-attribute

visible = tag(sync=True)

Whether the layer is visible.

Under most circumstances, using the visible attribute to control the visibility of layers is recommended over removing/adding the layer from the Map.layers list.

In particular, toggling the visible attribute will persist the layer on the JavaScript side, while removing/adding the layer from the Map.layers list will re-download and re-render from scratch.

• Type: bool
• Default: True

width_max_pixels class-attribute instance-attribute

width_max_pixels = tag(sync=True)

The maximum path width in pixels. This prop can be used to prevent the path from getting too thick when zoomed in.

• Type: float, optional
• Default: None

width_min_pixels class-attribute instance-attribute

width_min_pixels = tag(sync=True)

The minimum path width in pixels. This prop can be used to prevent the path from getting too thin when zoomed out.

• Type: float, optional
• Default: 0

width_scale class-attribute instance-attribute

width_scale = tag(sync=True)

The path width multiplier that multiplied to all paths.

• Type: float, optional
• Default: 1

width_units class-attribute instance-attribute

width_units = tag(sync=True)

The units of the line width, one of 'meters', 'common', and 'pixels'. See unit system.

• Type: str, optional
• Default: 'meters'