MapTools

Geospatial Data Visualization

Data visualization tools focus on telling a story with location data: choropleths, hex bins, arcs and animated trips. Some are no-code, others need a little scripting.

14 tools · 12 free or freemium · 6 open source

CARTO

carto.com

Cloud-native location intelligence on your data warehouse

Enterprise8

MapChart

mapchart.net

Color countries, states and regions to make simple choropleth maps

Freemium8

StoryMapJS

storymap.knightlab.com

Free tool to tell stories along a sequence of map locations

Free7

Foursquare Spatial Studio

location.foursquare.com

Large-scale map visualization and analysis in the browser

Freemium7

ArcGIS StoryMaps

storymaps.arcgis.com

Story maps that combine maps, text and media

Freemium6

kepler.gl

kepler.gl

Drag-and-drop geospatial data visualization in the browser

Open source5

Observable

observablehq.com

Data notebooks and dashboards with D3 and Plot maps

Freemium2

Datawrapper

datawrapper.de

Charts and maps for newsrooms, fast and accessible

Freemium1

deck.gl

deck.gl

GPU-powered visualization of large geospatial datasets

Open source1

Flourish

flourish.studio

Animated, interactive data stories including maps

Freemium1

D3 (d3-geo)

d3js.org

Map projections and SVG maps for custom data graphics

Open source1

Tableau

tableau.com

Business intelligence with built-in maps

Paid1

Folium

python-visualization.github.io

Leaflet maps from Python

Open source1

Plotly

plotly.com

Interactive maps in Python, R and JavaScript charts

Open source1