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This script creates a 3D bar plot to visualize the frequency of your data on a map.

cellphone tower usage in Shenzhen, China by region

Setup

• from the root directory, create a virtualenv with virtualenv -p python2 venv (must be named venv)
• from the root directory, run ./setup.sh ( may require sudo)
• this starts the virtualenv, installs the dependencies and other libraries that basemap depends on

Usage

• run python launch_map.py <map.shp> <map.geojson> <points.csv>
• <map.shp> this file should be a shapefile describing the map that you would like displayed in the background. If you already have a geojson with this information, you can convert it to a shapefile using this tool
• map.geojson this file should be a geojson describing the map that is displayed in the background. It should contain the same information as <map.shp>
• points.csv should have the points of the data you want to plot. each row should have the form 1 lon lat * where 1 represents the first column (this can be anything), followed by the longitude and latitude, followed by any extra data. Everything except for the 2nd and 3rd columns will be ignored.
• sample files have been included in the sample_data directory

Plot description

• all points will be mapped to a region from map.geojson and a bar will be placed in the center of the region where its height reflects how many points were contained in the region
• Bars are color coded where yellow = low number of occurences, orange = medium, and red = high