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Date Published
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Kelsey Taylor
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742
Language
English
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Summary

Mapbox Studio has introduced two new data visualization components, Symbols and Heatmap, allowing users to enhance their maps with custom styles efficiently. The Symbols component facilitates the quick visualization of data using icons and labels without needing advanced knowledge of Mapbox GL JS expressions, and includes up to seven geometric Maki icons, which can be customized in Studio. The Heatmap component enables users to create density visualizations easily, offering smart styling based on feature density and adjustable settings such as cluster radius and opacity. Users can now reorder data visualizations to improve map clarity, with a practical example provided by Senior Map Designer Kelsey Taylor, who created a style visualizing tropical cyclones from 2020, available for users to replicate in their Studio accounts.