Creating Geo Maps

Geo maps allow you to visualize Indicators on the interactive maps.

To add a new Geo map, hover over Insert new row and click on Map view type. New Map dialog will appear.

1. Enter the name of the New map and select Indicators that should be displayed in the map

     2.  You have to add Drill down path to complete the view setup. Drill down path defines which attribute will be used to categorise and position data on the map (for instance Sales indicator for specific State)

     3.  You can select Show details for. This option will do drill-down for selected Indicator according the attributes (for instance Sales Indicator for specific State and specific Product)

Drill Down Path

You can specify drill down path from Chart settings. To access dialog:

1. click on add drill down to complete the view setup link in the created view.
2. enter Map chart settings dialog from the toolbox and click Add drill down path.

Chart settings dialog allows you to:

• Specify Attribute or GEO Point to be used for aggregating and categorizing indicator's values.
• Select Place definition for proper positioning and visualization of data.
• Manage places definitions - continue by Managing GEO Data.
• Select desired map provider.
• Setup Limit for members in the drill down path. Displayed memebers depend on current sorting setup.

Associating Attribute with Place definition

There is a very thin connection between drill down and place definition. While drill down maintains indicator's values and their categorization, place definition keeps pairs of location identification and its coordinates. BellaDati automatically connects attribute's members with places and therefore enables their proper positioning.

Drill down option allows you to define:

1. how displayed indicators will be grouped and categorized.
2. what granularity will visualized data have.
3. which mapping background will be user (Standard, Black & White, Gray Scale, Outdoors, Cyclo, etc.)

Place definition option is used to associate selected attribute with Geo data.

Select Place definition according to:

1. Drill down path you selected.
2. Style of visualization you want to apply (point vs. region).

Each Place definition includes pair on place identification and its coordinates.

Coordinates can be represented as:

• Points. In point definition, location is identified by pair of values representig exact longitude and latitute.
• Regions. In region definition, area is restricted with polygon, composed of set of longitude and latitude values.

For more information about Place definition continue by Managing GEO Data.

Using GEO Points

GEO point is a special attribute type holding latitude and longitude coordinates of a special location. GEO points are most convenient to use when location information are stored directly in imported Data Set. It automatically generated its own place definition and can be directly used in reports. 

To use geo points:

1. Select GEO point attribute in Drill-down settings
2. Find relevant Point definition
3. Choose desired map provider

Map management

You can perform additional operations in upper right corner of the inserted Map view:

• Table settings
• Filter setting - continue by Using Filters
• Export view - continue by Exporting View
• Add to dashboard
• Move map
• Duplicate map
• Delete map

Map settings

Click on toolbox icon to enter Map settings dialog.

Map settings dialog shows Indicators and Drill down path currently applied to the map. BellaDati allows you to:

• Enter indicators or drill down path dialogs.
• Remove drill down path.
• Add time axis - continue by Setting Date Interval.

Video Tutorial

Next Steps

• Creating Chart
• Creating KPI labels
• Setting Date Interval
• Displaying Indicators
• Creating Filters