Working with Geo Maps

About Geo Maps

A geo map overlays your data on a geographic map. You can display your data either as bubbles or as colored regions on the geo map.

To display a geo map, you must define one or more of the categories as geography data items. For more information, see Define a Geography Data Item.

On the Properties tab, you can specify the following options:

Name

specifies the name of the visualization.

Title

specifies the title that appears above the graph.

Note: The Title option is disabled if you select Generate graph titles.

Generate graph titles

specifies that the graph title is generated automatically based on the data items in the visualization.

Frequency

specifies whether the frequency values are displayed as the number of values (Count) or as the percentage of values (Percent).

Map style

specifies the type of data overlay for the map. Select one of the following values:

Bubbles

displays your data as a series of bubbles. Each bubble is located at the center of a geographic region or at the coordinates of a location.

Regions

displays your data as colored regions on the map.

Note: The Regions map style is not available for custom geographic roles.

Note: The Map style option is disabled if both the Bubble size role and Color role are assigned.

Show map navigation control

specifies whether the map zoom and pan controls are visible.

Color gradient

selects the gradient colors for the visualization.

You can click Edit color gradient

to select the values that are used to assign the colors. See Specify a Custom Data Range.

Transparency

specifies the amount of transparency for the data overlay.

The basic data roles for a bubble plot are:

Geography

specifies the geography data item that identifies geographic regions for your map.

Geography data items are identified by the geography icon

icon.

Bubble size

for the Bubbles map style, specifies the measure that determines the bubble size.

Color

for the Regions map style, specifies the measure that determines the regions’ colors.

for the Bubbles map style, specifies a measure that determines the bubble color.

You can zoom the map by using any of the following controls:

You can pan (scroll) the map by using any of the following controls: