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3D Bar Charts

3D bar charts render extruded vertical bars anchored to geographic coordinates. Bar height is driven by a numeric attribute in your dataset, making it easy to compare values across locations at a glance.

Creating a 3D bar chart

  1. Import a GeoJSON or Shapefile layer containing point or polygon geometry.
  2. Open the Style Editor for that layer.
  3. Set Layer type to 3D Bar Chart.
  4. Choose the height attribute from the dataset column list.

Style options

Height attribute

The dataset column whose values determine bar height. Only numeric columns are listed.

Height scale

A multiplier applied to the raw attribute value to convert it to meters. For example, if your attribute is in thousands, set height scale to 1000 so a value of 5 produces a 5 000 m bar.

Bar color

  • Fixed color — all bars share a single color
  • By attribute — map a categorical or numeric column to a color gradient

Bar width

The horizontal footprint of each bar in meters. Smaller values work better for dense datasets; larger values are easier to read at lower zoom levels.