If you plant me anywhere in Manhattan, I can confidently tell you where the nearest bubble tea place is located. This may be because I have a lot of them memorized, but for the times my memory betrays me, luckily I have the boba map on my data blog. In this tutorial, we’ll use a combination of Python, the Google Maps API, and geojsonio to create what can only be described as the most important tool in the world: a boba map.

Environment & Dependencies

We have to set our environment up before we start coding. This guide was written in Python 3.6. If you haven’t already, download Python and Pip. Next, you’ll need to install several packages that we’ll use throughout this tutorial on the command line in our project directory: