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GeoContourPlot[{loc1val1,loc2val2,}]

makes a geo contour plot from values vali defined at specified locations loci.

GeoContourPlot[locsvals]

uses a collection of locations locs with corresponding values vals.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)Summary of the most common use cases

Generate a contour map from elevation data around Crater Lake:

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Use a relief map of the elevations for the background:

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Display the contours on a satellite image of the region:

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Scope  (18)Survey of the scope of standard use cases

Data  (7)

Plot data associated with geo locations:

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Plot gridded values over a specified range of coordinates:

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Use an Association with locations for keys and values for counts:

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Use WeightedData:

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GeoRange is selected automatically based on the data locations:

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Use GeoRange to focus on geographic areas of interest:

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Specify the number of contours to use:

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Use RegionFunction to restrict the density to a region:

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Presentation  (11)

Shade regions between contour lines:

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Add labels:

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Color the density by height:

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Use a different geographical projection:

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Include a legend:

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Use specific colors between contours:

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Show the plot on a street map:

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Use a satellite map:

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Label the contours:

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Use specific colors between contours:

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Use different styles for the contours:

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Use a theme with bright contours on a gray map:

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Options  (53)Common values & functionality for each option

BoundaryStyle  (2)

No boundary is used by default:

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Use a red boundary around the edges of the contours:

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ColorFunction  (2)

Color by scaled coordinate:

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Named color gradients color in the direction:

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ColorFunctionScaling  (1)

Color with blue if contour values are less than 0 meters, and with red otherwise:

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ContourLabels  (1)

Add labels to contour lines:

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Contours  (7)

Use 4 equally spaced contours:

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Use automatic contour selection:

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Use at most 3 automatically selected contours:

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Use specific contours:

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Use specific contours with specific styles:

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Use a function to generate a set of contours:

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Have contours at the 20th- and 80th-percentile values:

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ContourShading  (3)

The automatic shading is None to only show the contour lines:

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Shade between contours using a color function:

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Use an explicit list of colors between contours:

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ContourStyle  (4)

Use red contour lines:

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The default contour style for data with elevations and a relief map GeoBackground is a black line for values above the sea level and a white line for values below:

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The default contour style for data with elevations and a satellite map GeoBackground is a gray line:

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Use None to not show contour lines:

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Alternate between red and dashed contour lines:

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Use thick red contour lines:

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GeoBackground  (2)

By default, geo contour plots are shown on an unlabeled map:

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Show contours on different background maps:

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GeoCenter  (1)

Center the plot at specific entity coordinates:

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GeoGridLines  (1)

Overlay a map with geo grid lines using the default styling:

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GeoGridLinesStyle  (1)

Specify the overall geo grid line style:

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GeoModel  (2)

Use the default (ellipsoidal) model of the Earth:

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Use the Moon as a reference model:

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GeoProjection  (1)

Use GeoProjection to change the map projection:

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GeoRange  (1)

The geographic region to show is automatically determined:

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Specify the region to show:

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Specify the corners of the geo range:

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GeoRangePadding  (1)

Use GeoRangePadding->None to remove padding:

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Use 250 kilometers of padding on each side of the map:

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Specify padding for latitude only:

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Specify different padding on each side of the map:

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Pad inward on each side:

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GeoScaleBar  (1)

Show the plot with a scale bar in metric units:

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Show the plot with a scale bar in metric and imperial units:

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Place the scale bar in the top-right corner:

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GeoServer  (1)

Use the Wolfram geo server to download map tiles:

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Specify explicitly some of the parameters of the tile server:

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GeoZoomLevel  (1)

Explicitly specify GeoZoomLevel to obtain a lower-resolution map rendering:

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Explicitly specify GeoZoomLevel to obtain a higher-resolution map rendering:

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MaxPlotPoints  (3)

GeoContourPlot normally uses all of the points in the dataset:

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Limit the number of points used in each direction:

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MaxPlotPoints imposes a regular grid on irregular data:

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Mesh  (2)

Show the initial and final sampling mesh:

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Use 5 mesh levels in each direction:

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MeshFunctions  (1)

Use mesh lines in the and directions:

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MeshStyle  (2)

Use red mesh lines:

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Use red mesh lines in the direction and dashed mesh lines in the direction:

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PerformanceGoal  (2)

Generate a higher-quality plot:

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Emphasize performance, possibly at the cost of quality:

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PlotLegends  (6)

No legend is used, by default:

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Include a legend for shaded contours:

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Legends automatically use the same colors as the density plot:

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Use Placed to change legend placement:

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Use BarLegend to customize the legend:

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Legends automatically select shaded contours to label:

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PlotTheme  (1)

Use a theme with bright colors:

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Use a simplified map for the background:

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RegionFunction  (3)

Plot over a region in :

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Plot over a region in and :

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Use an entity region:

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Applications  (2)Sample problems that can be solved with this function

Show contour elevations on a disk of 5 kilometers centered on the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park:

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Generate a contour map of temperatures in the United States:

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Properties & Relations  (10)Properties of the function, and connections to other functions

Draw contours through general data with ListContourPlot:

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Smoothly shade a map using color with GeoDensityPlot:

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Use GeoBubbleChart to show values with scaled bubbles:

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Use GeoRegionValuePlot to show values with colored regions:

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Use GeoHistogram to aggregate locations into bins:

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Use GeoSmoothHistogram to generate smooth densities from locations:

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Use GeoListPlot for individual locations:

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Use GeoVectorPlot and GeoStreamPlot for vector fields:

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Use GeoGraphValuePlot to show the values on geographic networks:

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Plot relationships between geographic locations on a map:

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Wolfram Research (2020), GeoContourPlot, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html.
Wolfram Research (2020), GeoContourPlot, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html.

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Wolfram Research (2020), GeoContourPlot, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html.

Wolfram Research (2020), GeoContourPlot, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html.

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Wolfram Language. 2020. "GeoContourPlot." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html.

Wolfram Language. 2020. "GeoContourPlot." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2020). GeoContourPlot. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html

Wolfram Language. (2020). GeoContourPlot. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_geocontourplot, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeoContourPlot}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html}", note=[Accessed: 31-March-2025 ]}

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_geocontourplot, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeoContourPlot}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html}", note=[Accessed: 31-March-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_geocontourplot, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeoContourPlot}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html}, note=[Accessed: 31-March-2025 ]}

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_geocontourplot, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeoContourPlot}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoContourPlot.html}, note=[Accessed: 31-March-2025 ]}