How do you just set the origin/center longitude and latitude to a particular area?

[pbugnion]

How do you just set the origin/center longitude and latitude to a particular area?

[pbugnion]

At the moment, there is no programmatic way to do this. If you add data to the map, e.g. through a heat map, the map will be automatically centered and zoomed to fit the data.

PRs for adding a way to set the centre and zoom welcome! I was thinking of something like:

m = Map(zoom=8, centre=[-5.0, 5.0], centre_on_data=False)

[CMCDragonkai]

So I will just create 1 single data point heatmap?

[pbugnion]

That's not what I'm suggesting -- I was just thinking through what an interface allowing you to set the zoom and centre might look like.

At the moment you just can't set the centre and zoom programatically, though I suppose you could build a transparent heat map (set opacity=0.0) with two points that happen to give you the right centre and zoom. Finding those two points would be tricky. It's probably easier and more fun to just build the code to allow Map to take a centre and zoom and submit a PR than it is to fiddle around trying to find workarounds.

[pbugnion]

Close in favour of #83 .