pbugnion
commented
6 years ago Thanks for raising this!
This is not currently possible. PRs welcome!
For anyone wanting to implement this, I suggest adding a map_type traitlet to Map and an argument to the figure factory. The map_type traitlet would take values roadmap, satellite, hybrid or terrain and pass these through to the frontend.
See this page for the frontend documentation.
This may be a feature request, or maybe it is a documentation request if it is already possible and I have simply been unable to sort out how.
In any event, it would be useful to be able to pass an argument to "figure()" to force the map into satellite view (e.g satellite images vs cartographic maps).
In the examples some maps are shown in cartographic view and others in satellite view, with no distinction in the example code. I suspect the change has been made manually by clicking in the resulting plot. It would be useful to be able to specify this explicitly, programmatically.