Load GeoJSON as in GeoJSON_and_choropleth.ipynb.

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import json

import folium
import requests


url = (
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-visualization/folium/master/examples/data"
)
us_states = f"{url}/us-states.json"
geo_json_data = json.loads(requests.get(us_states).text)

Using CustomPane to place labels above choropleth¶

Map without custom pane¶

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m = folium.Map([43, -100], zoom_start=4, tiles="stamentoner")

folium.GeoJson(geo_json_data).add_to(m)

m

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Map with custom pane¶

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m = folium.Map([43, -100], zoom_start=4, tiles="stamentonerbackground")

folium.GeoJson(geo_json_data).add_to(m)

folium.map.CustomPane("labels").add_to(m)

# Final layer associated to custom pane via the appropriate kwarg
folium.TileLayer("stamentonerlabels", pane="labels").add_to(m)

m

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Same, but with a different tileset¶

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m = folium.Map([43, -100], zoom_start=4, tiles="CartoDBPositronNoLabels")

folium.GeoJson(geo_json_data).add_to(m)

folium.map.CustomPane("labels").add_to(m)

# Final layer associated to custom pane via the appropriate kwarg
folium.TileLayer("CartoDBPositronOnlyLabels", pane="labels").add_to(m)

m

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More tile providers can be found at https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/.