Map Line Charts using HighCharts?

Hello QS community,

I am trying to build a mapline chart using the HighCharts option, but that does not seem possible right now?

4:17 Warning: Value is not accepted. Valid values: “arearange”, “areaspline”, “areasplinerange”, “bullet”, “column”, “columnpyramid”, “columnrange”, “dependencywheel”, “gauge”, “line”, “lollipop”, “packedbubble”, “pareto”, “pie”, “pyramid3d”, “pyramid”, “sankey”, “streamgraph”, “sunburst”, “treegraph”, “treemap”, “variablepie”, “variwide”, “waterfall”, “wordcloud”, “xrange”, “arcdiagram”, “area”, “bar”, “boxplot”, “bubble”, “cylinder”, “dumbbell”, “errorbar”, “funnel3d”, “funnel”, “heatmap”, “item”, “networkgraph”, “organization”, “pictorial”, “polygon”, “scatter3d”, “scatter”, “solidgauge”, “spline”, “tilemap”, “timeline”, “vector”, “venn”, “windbarb”.

Is this really not available? If not, does anyone from the QS team knows when this will be available?

Below is the code snippet that I am trying to use:

{
  "chart": {
    "type": "mapline"
  },
  "title": {
    "text": "GPS Movement Over Time"
  },
  "subtitle": {
    "text": "Mapline showing movement based on timestamps"
  },
  "mapNavigation": {
    "enabled": true,
    "buttonOptions": {
      "verticalAlign": "bottom"
    }
  },
  "series": [
    {
      "name": "Movement Path",
      "type": "mapline",
      "color": "blue",
      "lineWidth": 2,
      "tooltip": {
        "pointFormat": "{point.timestamp}: ({point.lat}, {point.lon})"
      },
      "data": [
        {
          "lat": 37.7749,
          "lon": -122.4194,
          "timestamp": "2024-03-01 10:00:00"
        },
        {
          "lat": 34.0522,
          "lon": -118.2437,
          "timestamp": "2024-03-02 12:00:00"
        },
        {
          "lat": 40.7128,
          "lon": -74.0060,
          "timestamp": "2024-03-03 14:30:00"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Hi @bianca_p, thanks for your inquiry. QuickSight supports only the charts that are available in Highcharts Core at the moment. Since map line series is a feature under Highcharts Maps product, it is not available in QuickSight. I’ll mark this as a feature-request.

Thank you @ytakahr for your reply and for marking that as a feature request! Would you know of any alternative to build a map where we can draw lines from one point to another?

@bianca_p I’m sorry, but unfortunately that is not possible today.

FYI: As a closest thing, QuickSight already has a visual type called Layer Map. Layer Map accepts GeoJSON file and plots the user-defined shapes on map though, it currently supports polygon shape only, not line or point.