Setting choropleth layer name

[ahlevering]

Dearest all,

I've been using Folium for a group assignment and am loving what I can do with it so far. However, I run into troubles when trying to set the name for choropleth layers. While GeoJSON and TopoJSON formats have 'name' arguments that can be passed to the function, the choropleth function does not. As such, it appears as "macro_element_0a4d2f76a5a84a7084882de74056b4dd" in the layer list. I haven't found a passable argument or workaround for this problem.

I'm using the following code to add the choropleths:

tweet_map.choropleth(geo_path = polygon_geojson, data = polygon_data,
             columns=['name', 'avgsentiment'],
             threshold_scale = [-0.25, -0.125, 0, 0.125, 0.25],
             key_on = 'feature.properties.name',
             fill_color = 'RdYlGn', fill_opacity = 0.7, line_opacity = 0.5,
             legend_name = 'average sentiment',
             reset=True)

Am I missing something obvious or is there no easy way to set the layer name?

Yours truly,
Alex

EDIT: Setting the legend name does not help. It still displays as 'macro_element'. Additionally, I should mention that I add two choropleths to the same map. Perhaps this could cause problems as well?

[ocefpaf]

The choropleth method is old and we are probably deprecating it. The "right" way to do this is via the GeoJson class.

There is an example in cell 11 of http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/python-visualization/folium/blob/master/examples/GeoJSON_and_choropleth.ipynb?flush_cache=true

PS: I may be persuade to add this to the choropleth with a PR 🎐