User can display data as colored regions on an interactive map using a Map with areas visualization.
For steps to create the Maps with area visualization refer KB46610 : New feature in Strategy Analytics Enterprise Web 9.4.1 Hotfix2 : Maps with area in Visual Insight.
Maps with area visualization can be used to:
Display areas in the visualization with different colors based on the value of a metric.
Display additional information about a location when user clicks on an area in the visualization, by adding tooltips to the map areas.
To display areas in the Map with Areas visualization, users must provide an attribute whose values include the names of each area in the map’s base map. The base map is an ESRI map that contains the shape of each area that can be displayed in the visualization. The base maps available in Analytics Desktop include the following:
Continents
Countries of the world
United States counties
United States regions
United States state abbreviations
United States state names
United States ZIP codes
World administrative divisions
For example, the data source includes the names of countries where the company has sales representatives. Users can create an attribute called Country, which contains the names of these countries, then use the Country attribute to provide location information for areas in a visualization that uses the Countries of the World base map.
Analytics Desktop uses the attribute that contains location information to determine the default base map to display in the visualization. Attributes are also created while user imports data.
KB46611
