Format Panel for Map Visualizations
You can format a map visualization to determine whether markers on the map are clustered together in the visualization, or change the background map theme, such a street map or satellite map.
Access
- Open an existing dossier that contains the map visualization you want to format.
- Select the map visualization in the dossier.
- In the left toolbar, click Format.
Fields
- Select the area of the visualization you want to format from the first drop-down list.
Map Options
The Map options contain general formatting options for the map's display, such as the display theme, map type, clustering, and so on. The following options are available:
Base Map: Select whether to use Google or Esri as the base map.
Map Style: Select the display theme to use when showing the map (that is, Street, Topographic, etc.).
Zoom behavior: Determine whether to refit the map area when you select map locations. Select Dynamic to zoom in and refit the contents of the visualization to best display the selected locations on the map. Select Static to keep the current level of magnification when you select locations on the map.
Remember zoom level: This option appears when you select Static in Zoom behavior. Select this checkbox to maintain the current level of magnification.
Layers: There is one layer of data on your map, by default. Click Add under Layer 1 to add more data layers to the visualization. Each new layer appears underneath the existing layers.
Each layer can contain different attributes and metrics and can be styled and formatted independently of the others. Right-click a layer to rename or remove it. Drag layers above or below other layers to change their order.
Type: Select whether to display a map with markers, bubbles, areas, or density areas.
Shape: If you select Marker in Type, choose one of the following map marker shapes: Pins, Squares, Diamonds, or Images.
Clustering: You can enable map markers to be clustered together when a large number of map markers appears in the same map area. Each cluster of markers appears as a separate bubble or image marker.
Double-click a cluster to zoom in and display the individual map markers in the cluster. Select On to cluster map markers. Select Pie to cluster map markers with pie graphs. Select Off (default) to display map markers without clustering.
Shape Formatting
Select color ranges: If you are using thresholds, click to modify the threshold colors. This option is only available for marker, bubble, and area maps.
Fill: Select the fill color and opacity for map shapes. The higher the percentage, the more opaque the map shape. This option is only available for marker, bubble, and area maps.
Border: Select the border style and color of map shapes. This option is only available for bubble and area maps.
Max size: If you select Bubble in Type, select Automatic to allow Digital.ai Intelligence Applications to automatically determine the maximum size of the bubbles. Select Manual to enter a maximum size between 0.01 - 1.0.
Min size: This field appears when there is a metric in the Size By area of the Editor panel and you select Bubble in Type. Select Proportional to allow Digital.ai Intelligence Applications to determine the minimum bubble size in proportion to the maximum bubble size. Select Full Range to make the smallest marker size fixed, independent of its value. Select Adjusted Range to enter a size for the smallest marker.
Density map color gradient: If you select Density in Type, select the color theme to show locations on the map. This option is only available for density maps.
Note: To display areas with a low density of locations of interest as blue and areas with a high density as red, select the color theme that changes from blue to red.
Data Labels
Text: Select this option to display data labels using the metric values associated with each location or marker. This option is only available if there is an attribute in the Break By area of the Editor panel.
Values: Select this option to display data labels using the metric values associated with each location or marker.
None (default): Select this option to hide data labels.
Hide Overlapping Labels: Select this checkbox to hide labels that overlap each other.
Font: Select font formatting options for the data labels.
Legend
Show Legend: Select this checkbox to display a legend on the map. This option appears if you are using thresholds to define colors.
More Options: Click to define additional formatting options, such as how to display the attribute form names and how null and zero metric values are hidden.
Title and Container
The following options are available to format the title, background, and borders in a visualization:
Title
Show titlebar: Select the checkbox to display the visualization's title.
Font: Select font formatting options.
Container
Fill Color: Select the background color of the visualization from the palette.
Outer Border: Select the style and color of the visualization's borders from the drop-down lists.