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

Install

ES6

npm install --save svgmap

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

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/svg-pan-zoom@3.6.1/dist/svg-pan-zoom.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/svgMap@v2.10.1/dist/svgMap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/svgMap@v2.10.1/dist/svgMap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

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

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
`colorMin`	`string`	`'#FFE5D9'`	Color for lowest value
`colorNoData`	`string`	`'#E2E2E2'`	Color when there is no data
`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)
`↳ Crimea`	`'UA'`, `'RU'`	`'UA'`	Crimea: Set to 'RU' to make the Crimea part of Russia, by default it is part of the Ukraine
`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

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.

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.

vmoshikov/Plitochnaya_svgMap_Rus