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Add contour map functionality

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5/5
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Issue type
Feature
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Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

The issue does not name any implementation files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing Folium's existing layer and data-visualization APIs to determine whether scattered measurements can support contour maps; done would require a defined API and documented support for this map type.

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Description

enhancement

Dear all

I would like to make a map of weather-like data as temperature or pressure on a folium map similar to the plot below (from https://cdoovision.com/us-temperature-contour-map/):
us-temperature-contour-map-sfc-con-temp

As it can be seen it is not a choropleth map as the contours go through the states and it is not a heatmap as I do not care how many measurements underlies this. The data I have is not gridded, but I have many individual measurements semi-randomly scattered over a large area.

Is this possible in folium currently in any way?

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