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Datawrapper

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Velocity5.0

Tool for creating interactive charts, maps and tables for newsrooms and publishers

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Datawrapper lets locator maps use your own icons, then keeps fixing small chart behaviours.

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◆Current state
Datawrapper's changelog remains a stream of small, dated changes to individual chart types. The largest recent item lets locator-map authors pick from a larger icon set or upload their own marker icons, with backgrounds or outlines to separate them from the map. Around it sit fixes for custom month ticks, archive search surviving a re-sort, row highlighting in arrow and dot plots, and a batch of new boundary maps for Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil and US ZIP areas.
◆Where it's heading
The work is spread across chart types rather than concentrated on one bet: maps get the most attention, with icon customization, dark-mode zoom controls and monthly boundary additions. Expect the same cadence of per-chart refinements, with maps continuing to receive the visible upgrades.
◆Prediction
More map customization is the likeliest next step, following custom icons with further marker or label styling options; the entries give no sign of a new chart type.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    2026-11-09 / locator maps

    A follow-up to the custom marker icons from 4 November: uploaded or edited icons can now be reset to their default colors. Small polish on the newest locator-map feature.

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  2. 9d ago

    2026-11-05 / Check & Describe

    Hiding or showing several columns at once in Check & Describe now updates the table immediately. A small fix to the data-preparation step.

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  3. 10d ago

    2026-11-04 / locator maps

    Custom and uploaded marker icons, with optional backgrounds and outlines, are the biggest locator-map change in the recent feed and fit the pattern of maps getting most of the visible upgrades.

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  4. 11d ago

    2026-11-03 / multiple lines, multiple columns and dual axis charts

    Custom month-only ticks now repeat on every year in the chart rather than only the current one, a correctness fix for line and column charts.

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  5. 12d ago

    2026-11-02 / archive

    Re-sorting the archive no longer wipes the search term, a small workflow fix for people managing many charts.

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  6. 12d ago

    2026-11-02 / arrow, range and dot plots

    Arrow, range and dot plots can now highlight rows as well as columns, a minor extension of an existing option.

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