Maps
This applies to: Visual Data Discovery
Map visuals you can use with your data include marker maps, US region maps, and world country maps. Most data sources can support the maps available in Symphony.
Elements map visuals support include:
Start Zoom and Max Zoom settings.
Support for the ISO-3166 standard.
An initial map center definition: Include Start Latitude and Start Longitude coordinates. When used win combination with Start Zoom, you can specifically define your initial view for a visual.
For more information, see:
Marker Maps
Marker maps are supported by most Symphony data connectors. To include your data, the data for marker maps must contain latitude and longitude fields.
Symphony supports a variety of tile providers which offer an overlay design for the map visual styles available in the program. These include: OpenStreetMap, MapQuest, and MapBox. MapQuest and MapBox require an API key.
Note: If you select OpenStreetMap as your tile provider, you can optionally set a custom URL. See the Global Settings tab.
Coordinates for this visual are shown by default as a tooltip when a user hovers over a marker point. You can disable this by toggling off the setting Show Coordinates Int Tooltip
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You can disable the Limit property to allow processing of all available data instead of limiting the rows processed to a user-defined number.
Note: To edit the number format for this visual, edit Tooltip Fields in the Settings sidebar menu. See Configure Number Formatting for Visuals.
US Region Maps
US region maps are based on up to three attributes (state name, county, and zip code) and one metric. They are supported by all Symphony data connectors, however the data must include state names to see results.
The state name must be spelled out with the first letter capitalized. For example, California is an accepted format, not CA. For a list of valid state names, see State Name Reference.
County names and zip codes can also be used to display results at the county and zip code level. These fields are not required: hide these values by selecting None for these fields in the Settings sidebar menu.
Symphony supports a variety of tile providers which offer an overlay design for the map visual styles available in the program. These include: OpenStreetMap, MapQuest, and MapBox. MapQuest, CloudMade and MapBox require an API key.
If you select OpenStreetMap as your tile provider, you can optionally set a custom URL. See the Global Settings tab.
Note: To edit the number format for this visual, see Configure Number Formatting for Visuals.
Use the Drill Down Function
If your US region map includes county and zip codes in your data, you can use the drill down function to display county and zip code-level results within a state.
Drill down in to a county or zip code
On your US region map, select a state. Select Drill Down in the context menu. The map reorients to center the selected state to the level of state counties.
On the state, select a county within the state. Select Drill Down in the context menu. The map reorients to center the selected county to the level of zip codes within that county.
World Maps
World maps are based on one attribute (country name) and two metrics. They are supported by all Symphony data connectors, however the data must include country names to see results.
Note: To edit the number format for this visual, see Configure Number Formatting for Visuals.
Configure Colors for a US Region or World Map
Specify the color settings for a specific map using the Color sidebar
Edit the visual you want to modify. See Edit Visuals.
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If you are editing the visual in a dashboard, select Settings from the visual drop-down menu. The sidebar menu for the visual appears. If you are editing the visual from the Visual Gallery, the sidebar appears to the right of the visual.
Select the colors icon
on the sidebar menu. The Color sidebar for the visual appears.
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Configure the color settings as described below. As you change the color settings, the legend at the top of the Color sidebar shows how the legend will appear on the visual. Supported color specifications are described in Specify Colors.
Setting Description Legend
Slide the bar to the right if you want the legend to be displayed on the visual or to the left to hide the legend.
Color Metric
Select the metric that affects the segment color in the visual.
<type> Color Palette
If Inherit from Theme is selected, the color palette is determined by the theme selected for the Symphony UI.
To override the palette selected by the theme, clear the Inherit from Theme checkbox and select a different color palette.
Color Mode
Select Distinct Colors or Gradient to identify the way colors are used on the screen. Either specific distinct colors will be used or a gradient of colors will be used.
Threshold Mode
If you selected the Gradient color mode, this setting cannot be changed. If you selected the Distinct Colors color mode, select either Auto or Manual from the drop-down list.
Auto will automatically assign thresholds and colors for the visual. Manual enables you to change the thresholds and colors used on the visual.
Number of colors
Specify the number of colors to use for the visual.
Color Rules
Color rules allow you to change the colors for each color used for the visual. Additionally, if you specified a Manual threshold mode, you can select the thresholds used for color settings in the visual.
Close the Color sidebar and the color settings are dynamically applied to the visual.
Select the save icon
to save the dashboard and the visual with its updated settings.
Understand Visual Color Condition Thresholds
You can set threshold color conditions for metric-based visuals. At least two color settings are required. In addition, thresholds are specified between each color setting. (So three color settings require two threshold settings; four color settings require three threshold settings, etc.)
The color for Color 1 is used when the value of the color metric is less than the first threshold value.
The color for Color 2 is used when the value of the color metric falls between the first and second threshold values.
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If only three colors are used for the visual, the color for Color 3 is used when the value of the color metric is greater than or equal to the second threshold value.
If more than three colors are used, the color for Color 3 is used when the value of the color metric falls between the second and third threshold values.
When more than three colors are used, the colors continue to be applied in this pattern for all threshold settings; any color metric values greater than the last threshold setting have the final color applied.
You can have Symphony automatically set the thresholds or you can manually set them.
For information about the color encoding supported by Symphony, see Specify Colors.
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