Exports

MapView produces two kinds of durable output: an interactive HTML file of the current view for sharing, and — through the Python layer it shares — fully scripted static figures for publication.

Note

Export and Session are different. Export (below) writes a figure of the current view to share with others. Session (see Loading Data And Sessions) saves and restores your working state inside MapView. Use Export to hand a scene to someone; use Session to resume your own work.

Interactive HTML

The Export button on the top bar saves the current view as a standalone interactive HTML file (mapview_<view>.html) — the full Plotly figure with pan, zoom, rotate, and hover intact. The file loads plotly.js from a CDN, so it stays small and can be mailed or dropped into a shared drive; opening it needs only a browser, not a pyCSAMT installation.

This works for every view, including the 3-D scene — a fence-section scene exported this way remains fully rotatable for the recipient. For a quick raster instead, the Plotly modebar’s camera button on the Map canvas saves a PNG of the current framing.

Static Figures And Beyond

For publication-quality static exports (PNG/SVG at a chosen size and camera), drive the same figures from code with the Python mapping layer:

from pycsamt.map import MapView

view = MapView.from_folder("path/to/edi_folder", recursive=True)
fig = view.map3d(mode="fence", quantity="rho")
fig.write_image("survey_fence.png", width=1200, height=800)

Everything MapView draws is reproducible this way — the app and the API share one figure factory.