Viewing ESRI Maps

Overview of the Map Viewer

If ESRI mapping is enabled for the data source that you are viewing, you can use the map viewer to browse the map.

To open the map viewer, select View

Data Viewer

Map from the main menu bar. The map viewer is available only if a map service is defined for the current data source in the SAS Metadata Repository. In addition, the hierarchy that contains geographic information must be included in the current data query.

Concepts for Map Data

If ESRI mapping is enabled for your data source, one or more hierarchies are defined as region identifiers. Region identifiers associate the values in your data source with regions in the ESRI map.

The map viewer can display only one value for each member of a region identifier hierarchy. As a result, you must select a single member for each of the other hierarchies, and you must select a single measure. By default, the map viewer selects the first member for each hierarchy and the first measure.

For example, your cube contains a Geography hierarchy, a Time hierarchy, a Sales measure, and an Expense measure. If Geography is the region identifier, you can display 2004 sales data for each region by selecting Year=2004 for the Time hierarchy, and then selecting the Sales measure.

To select the data for the map, use the Data Crossing tab of the Properties dialog box. For more information, see Specify Properties for the Map Viewer.

Browse a Map

You can browse a map by using tools on the map viewer toolbar:

Tools for the Map Viewer

Icon	Tool	Function
	Zoom In	zooms in on a selected area. Click and drag the cursor to select the area that you want to zoom in on.
	Zoom Out	zooms out from a point. Click a point on the map to zoom out and center on that point.
	Pan	moves the map content within the viewer. Click and drag the map until the viewer shows the area that you want to see.
	Full Extent	resets the zoom level to show the full extent of the current map data.
	Drill Down	subsets the map to a specific region, and displays its subregions.
	Drill Up	removes the last drill-down action that you performed.
	Expand	expands a region to display its subregions. Click a region on the map to expand it.
	Collapse	collapses a parent region to hide its subregions. Click a subregion to collapse its parent.
	Identify Region	displays information about a region. Click on a map region to retrieve the data for that region. Both the ESRI data and the SAS OLAP data are displayed.
	Select Region	selects a region of the map for filtering. Click a region to select it. Hold down the CTRL key and click to select additional regions, or to deselect regions.
	Rectangular Selection	subsets the map by using a rectangular selection. The map regions that are covered by the rectangle are added to a filter. To remove the filter, see Clear All Filters.
	Filter	subsets the data to use only the selected regions. To remove the filtering, see Clear All Filters.