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title: "MapView"
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⚠️ **This type is _unstable_ and may change significantly in a way that the data won't be backwards compatible.**
A 2D map view to display geospatial primitives.

## Properties

### `zoom`
Configures the zoom level of the map view.
### `background`
Configuration for the background map of the map view.

## API reference links
 * 🐍 [Python API docs for `MapView`](https://ref.rerun.io/docs/python/stable/common/blueprint_views#rerun.blueprint.views.MapView)

## Example

### Use a blueprint to create a map view.

snippet: views/map

<picture data-inline-viewer="snippets/views/map">
  <source media="(max-width: 480px)" srcset="https://static.rerun.io/map_view/9d0a5ba3a6e8d4693ba98e1b3cfcc15d166fd41d/480w.png">
  <source media="(max-width: 768px)" srcset="https://static.rerun.io/map_view/9d0a5ba3a6e8d4693ba98e1b3cfcc15d166fd41d/768w.png">
  <source media="(max-width: 1024px)" srcset="https://static.rerun.io/map_view/9d0a5ba3a6e8d4693ba98e1b3cfcc15d166fd41d/1024w.png">
  <source media="(max-width: 1200px)" srcset="https://static.rerun.io/map_view/9d0a5ba3a6e8d4693ba98e1b3cfcc15d166fd41d/1200w.png">
  <img src="https://static.rerun.io/map_view/9d0a5ba3a6e8d4693ba98e1b3cfcc15d166fd41d/full.png">
</picture>


## Visualized archetypes

* [`GeoLineStrings`](../archetypes/geo_line_strings.md)
* [`GeoPoints`](../archetypes/geo_points.md)

