Honeycomb
style: 'tiles' turns the map into a tile cartogram: one equal-size hexagon per state (our own US grid), so Rhode Island weighs as much as Texas. Hover, selection, keyboard and zoom work as on the geographic map. Right: square tiles; below: binning store points into hexagons over the real map (hexbin).
Open the chart without page chrome ↗Drawing width at least 900 px. Scroll within the chart on smaller screens.
This example builds its charts with page controls and helpers, so there is no single options object to show. Open the standalone example to read its source.
import WestCoastCharts from 'west-coast-charts'
import types from 'west-coast-charts/types'
import premium from 'west-coast-charts/premium'
import 'west-coast-charts/maps/us-states' // registers the map shapes
WestCoastCharts.use(types).use(premium)
const WestCoastChartsPremium = premium
WestCoastCharts.setLicenseKey(LICENCE_KEY) // paid production licence; localhost evaluation needs no keyWaiting for the chart.
Open Data & agent view to read this chart through chart.describe().
Read from the running library through its optional agent/describe module. Text, table and JSON share the same snapshot. Demo data only.
$ wcc chart export maps-honeycomb.json --out maps-honeycomb.svg --with-tablePublic agent tools 0.2.3, tested with Library 1.1.5; available from the versioned GitHub release and npm. Save a JSON spec first and check the loaded runtime and supported modules before rendering. Command reference
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