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.

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.

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.

Next steps