# Region map of human body?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/region-map-of-human-body/178334>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/region-map-of-human-body/178334 "2019-04-24T21:32:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![cbfftm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cbfftm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cbfftm)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/region-map-of-human-body/178334/1 "2019-04-24T21:32:16Z")

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I'm working on a medical application and would like to display a visualization like a Region Map, but of the human body. Based on the documentation it looks like the Region Map control is specifically for geographical maps. I'm guessing I would need to write my own plugin to do this. It seems like the functionality would be similar. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![LizaD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lizad/32/51074_2.png) [@LizaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LizaD)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/region-map-of-human-body/178334/2 "2019-04-24T21:39:17Z")

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That sounds neat, @thomasneirynck any recommendations?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/region-map-of-human-body/178334/3 "2019-04-25T02:29:38Z")

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@cbfftm

Yes, it is specifically for geo-data, but your request is not unusual and people have used the region-map for non-geographic visualizations before.

The only restrictions is that your end user would be OK with having the areas of that human body be projected with a web-mercator projection. If your areas are small enough, the distortion is likely acceptable.

You will need a geojson file of the human body, where each feature in that collection represents an area on the body. The coordinates for those shapes need to be lat/lon. In the human body case, these will be "fake" of course and in an arbitrary reference system. You need a domain where all coordinates fall in between [-180,180] for X and [-90,90] for Y. You can hide the background layer by using a dummy custom base layer. e.g. something like `foobar.com/{x}/{y}/{z}.png`

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/region-map-of-human-body/178334/4 "2019-05-23T02:29:38Z")

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