svgMap

svgMap is a JavaScript library that lets you easily create an interactable world map comparing customizable data for each country.

Live demo: https://stephanwagner.me/create-world-map-charts-with-svgmap#svgMapDemoGDP

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Install

ES6

npm install --save svgmap

import svgMap from 'svgmap';
import 'svgmap/dist/svgMap.min.css';

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/svg-pan-zoom.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/[email protected]/dist/svgMap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/[email protected]/dist/svgMap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

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Usage

Create an HTML element where to show your map, then use JavaScript to initialize:

<div id="svgMap"></div>

new svgMap({
  targetElementID: 'svgMap',
  data: {
    data: {
      gdp: {
        name: 'GDP per capita',
        format: '{0} USD',
        thousandSeparator: ',',
        thresholdMax: 50000,
        thresholdMin: 1000
      },
      change: {
        name: 'Change to year before',
        format: '{0} %'
      }
    },
    applyData: 'gdp',
    values: {
      AF: { gdp: 587, change: 4.73 },
      AL: { gdp: 4583, change: 11.09 },
      DZ: { gdp: 4293, change: 10.01 }
      // ...
    }
  }
});

This example code creates a world map with the GDP per capita and its change to the previous year: https://stephanwagner.me/create-world-map-charts-with-svgmap#svgMapDemoGDP

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Options

You can pass the following options into svgMap:

Option	Type	Default
targetElementID	string		The ID of the element where the world map will render (Required)
minZoom	float	1	Minimal zoom level
maxZoom	float	25	Maximal zoom level
initialZoom	float	1.06	Initial zoom level
initialPan	object		Initial pan on x and y axis (e.g. { x: 30, y: 60 })
showContinentSelector	boolean	false	Show continent selector
zoomScaleSensitivity	float	0.2	Sensitivity when zooming
showZoomReset	boolean	false	Show zoom reset button
mouseWheelZoomEnabled	boolean	true	Enables or disables zooming with the scroll wheel
mouseWheelZoomWithKey	boolean	false	Allow zooming only when one of the following keys is pressed: SHIFT, CONTROL, ALT, COMMAND, OPTION
mouseWheelKeyMessage	string	'Press the [ALT] key to zoom'	The message when trying to scroll without a key
mouseWheelKeyMessageMac	string	Press the [COMMAND] key to zoom	The message when trying to scroll without a key on MacOS
colorMax	string	'#CC0033'	Color for highest value. Accepts CSS vars, color names, rgb or hex values.
colorMin	string	'#FFE5D9'	Color for lowest value. Accepts CSS vars, color names, rgb or hex values.
colorNoData	string	'#E2E2E2'	Color when there is no data. Accepts CSS vars, color names, rgb or hex values.
flagType	'image', 'emoji'	'image'	The type of the flag in the tooltip
flagURL	string		The URL to the flags when using flag type 'image'. The placeholder {0} will get replaced with the lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Default: 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags@latest/svg/{0}.svg'
hideFlag	boolean	false	Hide the flag in tooltips
noDataText	string	'No data available'	The text to be shown when no data is present
touchLink	boolean	false	Set to true to open the link (see data.values.link) on mobile devices, by default the tooltip will be shown
onGetTooltip	function		Called when a tooltip is created to custimize the tooltip content (function (tooltipDiv, countryID, countryValues) { return 'Custom HTML'; })
countries	object		Additional options specific to countries:
↳ EH	boolean	true	When set to false, Western Sahara (EH) will be combined with Morocco (MA)
data	object		The chart data to use for coloring and to show in the tooltip. Use a unique data-id as key and provide following options as value:
↳ name	string		The name of the data, it will be shown in the tooltip
↳ format	string		The format for the data value, {0} will be replaced with the actual value
↳ thousandSeparator	string	','	The character to use as thousand separator
↳ thresholdMax	number	null	Maximal value to use for coloring calculations
↳ thresholdMin	number	0	Minimum value to use for coloring calculations
↳ applyData	string		The ID (key) of the data that will be used for coloring
↳ values	object		An object with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code as key and the chart data for each country as value
↳ color	string		Forces a color for this country
↳ link	string		An URL to redirect to when clicking the country
↳ linkTarget	string		The target of the link. By default the link will be opened in the same tab. Use '_blank' to open the link in a new tab
countryNames	object		An object with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code as key and the country name as value

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Styling

You can overwrite the following scss variables to customize the style of the map:

Variable	Default
$textColor	#111
$textColorLight	#777
$oceanColor	#d9ecff
$mapActiveStrokeColor	#333
$mapActiveStrokeWidth	1.5
$blockZoomNoticeColor	#fff
$blockZoomNoticeBackgroundColor	rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)
$mapControlsColor	#fff
$mapControlsBackgroundColor	#fff
$mapControlsIconColor	#ccc
$mapControlsIconColorActive	#000
$mapControlsDisabledColor	#eee
$mapControlsBoxShadow	0 0 0 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
$mapTooltipColor	#111
$mapTooltipBackgroundColor	#fff
$mapTooltipFlagBackgroundColor	rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15)
$mapTooltipBoxShadowColor	rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2)
$continentControlsBoxShadow	0 0 0 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
$countryStrokeColor	#fff

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Localize

Use the option countryNames to translate country names. In the folder demo/html/local or demo/es6/local you can find translations in following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Urdu.

To create your own translations, check out country-list by Saša Stamenković.

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Attribution

If you need more detailed maps or more options for your data, there is a great open source project called datawrapper out there, with a lot more power than svgMap.

svgMap uses svg-pan-zoom by Anders Riutta (now maintained by bumpu).

The country flag images are from country-flags by Hampus Joakim Borgos.

Most data in the demos was taken from Wikipedia.