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Riskman
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

Combining filled and bubble map

I want to display specific locations on top of a filled map - is this possible.   So for example I can show a map of the USA with the states shaded according to crime rates for example but can I th...
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Sean
Community Champion
10 years ago

You can do couple things...

Create a Filled Map and a regular Map next to each other like this

The Filled Map shows you the states and the regular map the location (1)

When you select CA in the Filled Map - the regular Map will zoom in on CA and show you those locations (2)

You can also use the dirill down feature in regular maps...

Create 1 Regular Map - place both State and City in the Location area

click drill down button (top right corner) - click CA - the SAME map will zoom in on CA

Hope this helps! Let me know.

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Riskman
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

Hi Sean in your first suggestion you said clicking on CA in the Filled map would zoom the second map to CA. I couldn't get that to work. Do you have to do something specific to get this going?

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    Sean
    Community Champion
    10 years ago

    Riskman Yes - when you click on the Filled Map - the regular map zooms to that state.

    What fields are you using in the second map and how are they formatted?

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      Riskman
      Regular Visitor
      10 years ago

      Sean I have State (formatted as text) and my locations (specified as addresses in free text). Both of these are added to the Location field. The Long/Lat fields are not used:

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        Sean
        Community Champion
        10 years ago

        Riskman think of the Filled Map as your Slicer - and the regular map shows ALL locations - remove State from the Location field.

        This also works with Counties.