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[Feature Request / Bug]: Limitations in scattergeo and natural earth projection when handling antimeridian crossing and programmatic centering #8046

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When working with long-haul transpacific flight tracks that cross the 180° meridian (antimeridian) on a 2D map view (natural earth projection), scattergeo exhibits severe limitations regarding automatic centering, zooming, and boundary rendering.

Specifically, attempting to programmatically center the map on routes crossing the dateline results in projection clipping or shifts the view incorrectly (e.g., to the Atlantic/African perspective). While injecting null values into coordinate arrays successfully prevents straight lines from stretching awkwardly across the entire globe, it breaks standard spherical centroid and midpoint calculations. Furthermore, because bounded 2D projections like natural earth lack infinite horizontal wrapping, smooth centering across the antimeridian is virtually unsupported.

Steps to reproduce
Set up a scattergeo plot using the natural earth projection (geo.projection.type: 'natural earth').

Plot a flight path with coordinates crossing the 180° meridian (e.g., from Vancouver [-123.18, 49.19] across the Pacific to Seoul [126.44, 37.46]).

Attempt to programmatically update geo.center or geo.projection.rotation.lon to focus/zoom into the midpoint of the route.

Note the issue: The flat 2D projection either clips/shifts the viewport entirely away from the Pacific or forces lines to span across the map, as there is no native antimeridian-aware centering support for bounded 2D geo projections.

Notes
This issue impacts custom flight dash applications using scattergeo where users want to select specific routes to zoom into. Having native support for antimeridian-aware bounding/centering or seamless horizontal wrapping in flat 2D projections would eliminate the need for complex workaround scripts.

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