René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Fix Michigan","articleBody":"Choropleths of US states - like https://plot.ly/~Dreamshot/8177/gun-control-google-search-volume-by-us-state-since-2004/ - draw states with their borders out in the great lakes. Which _is_ where their jurisdictional borders are, but this is not so useful or meaningful to viewers.\n\n![screen shot 2016-09-02 at 12 01 58 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2678795/18210902/c9b34f86-7108-11e6-846e-687299c416ff.png)\n\nThis looks OK at the national level (gives a seamless border between US and Canada) but not at the state level. We should use the land outlines. This will affect all the great lakes states a little bit (MN, WI, IL, IN, OH, PA, NY) but Michigan has a totally different shape and size if you include the lakes.\n\nThe [docs](https://plot.ly/python/choropleth-maps/#united-states-choropleth-map) show a workaround using `showlakes` but this shouldn't be necessary, and still doesn't look exactly as you'd want - for this type of map you shouldn't see the border lines out in the water, and there should be lines at the water's edge:\n\n![screen shot 2016-09-02 at 12 34 37 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2678795/18211071/b0ee5544-7109-11e6-9d4b-8f69be05fb41.png)\n\nGlobally I only see one other place we could consider doing this: Lake Victoria (Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya) but it's still not as big a change to the countries involved, and searches for eg \"Tanzania Outline\" and \"Africa Choropleth\" show that people don't seem to care too much one way or the other (but I will defer to locals, if any would like to chime in)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/alexcjohnson","@type":"Person","name":"alexcjohnson"},"datePublished":"2016-09-02T16:55:46.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/899/plotly.js/issues/899"}