During a project of mine I faced the need to display geographical information of people in a dataset. Thus I decided to create a map of regions in Italy emphasizing districts with a greater population (relatively to my dataset).
Looking Plotly APIs It seems quite easy to create the map for the USA as all information are provided. But I faced some issues while creating the map of Italy. Some information were missing. Here I aggregate all info needed to create such map, with references to resources that allowed me to complete the task.
- Plotly Map API: https://plot.ly/python/maps/
- GeoJSON: https://github.com/Dataninja/geo-shapes/tree/master/italy
- ISTAT codes and city names: https://github.com/matteocontrini/comuni-json (italian only)