svgmap-next

svgmap-next is a JavaScript library that lets you easily create an interactable world map comparing customizable data for each country. It's a Webpack-compatible adaptation of the original svgMap by Stephen Wagner.

Install

yarn add svgmap-next

Webpack Usage

<div id="map"></div>

import svgmap from 'svgmap-next'

const map = new svgmap({
  element: document.getElementById('map'),
  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}
    }
  }
})

// later on, before leaving the page, eg. `turbolinks:before-cache`

map.unload()

Options

You can pass the following options into svgMap:

• element (DOMElement) The element where the world map will render (Required)

• minZoom, maxZoom (float) Minimal and maximal zoom level. Default: 1 for minZoom, 25 for maxZoom

• initialZoom (float) Initial zoom level. Default: 1.06

• zoomScaleSensitivity (float) Sensitivity when zooming. Default: 0.2

• mouseWheelZoomEnabled (boolean) Enables or disables zooming with the scroll wheel. Default: true

• colorMax, colorMin, colorNoData (string) The color values in hex for highest value colorMax, lowest value colorMin and no data available colorNoData. Default: #CC0033 for colorMax, #FFE5D9 for colorMin, #E2E2E2 for colorNoData

• flagType ('emoji', 'image') The type of the flag in the tooltip. Default: image

• 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) Decide whether to show the flag option or not

• noDataText (string) The default text to be shown when no data is present

• countries (object) Additional options specific to countries:

  • EH (boolean) 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) Maximal value to use for coloring calculations

  • thresholdMin (number) 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

• 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 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-next.

svgmap-next uses svg-pan-zoom by Anders Riutta.

The country flag images are from country-flags by Hampus Nilsson.

Most data in the demos was taken from Wikipedia.