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Shapes and geometry

The Geometry layer draws polygons and shapes from a geometry column in your data. Geometry can be encoded as WKT, WKB, or GeoJSON, and can contain points, lines, or polygons.

Live map US unemployment by county Open full screen
3,221 county polygons held as WKT in a Lakehouse file, colored in seven quantile classes. Click a county to select it. Built and published with Icon Map for Fabric.

What you can do

  • Fill and outline — style the interior and border of each shape by value, category, or rule.
  • 3D extrusion — raise polygons into 3D prisms, with height driven by your data, for a 3D "spike map" effect.
  • Labels — attach data-bound labels to each shape.

Geometry layers are ideal for territories, catchment areas, administrative boundaries, and any polygon data you already hold in Fabric.

Live map Manhattan buildings, extruded by height Open full screen
43,916 building footprints. Height drives both the extrusion and the color class - drag with the right mouse button to orbit. Built and published with Icon Map for Fabric.

Boundaries from the Catalog

If you don't hold boundary geometry yourself, you can add ready-made boundaries — countries, regions, postcodes, and more — from the Icon Map Catalog and bind your data to them.

Importing shapes from files

To bring in geometry from a GeoJSON, KML, GPX, Shapefile, or IMDF file rather than a data column, see Shapes from file.

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