Author: Mapline

Visualizing Your Data with a Geographic Radial Heat Map

Steps to overlay a radial style heat maps

1. Open your map.
2. Click the drop down menu next to your dataset.
3. Select “Heat Map.”
4. Select whether you would like to apply the heat to the area around the pins or the overlapping radius areas.
5. Define the radius (miles or kilometers).
6. Select whether you would like the heat map to be based on location density or the sum or average of your data.
7. Click on the “Styling” tab to set the opacity and blur. You can also remove the legend and fade the edges of the heat map.
8. Click “OK.”

1. Click the pin icon on the left sidebar.
2. Select “Style.”
3. Select the “Hide Pins” option at the top right.

Steps to share a map

1. Open your map.
2. Click “Options.”
3. Select “Share.”
4. Enter the email address of the person with whom you would like to share your map.
5. Click “Share.”
6. Select if you would like to share the dataset information with that person.
7. An email will be sent to the user inviting them to sign in to see the map you have shared with them. If they are not a registered user, they will be required to register using the same email address as the one you shared your map with.
8. Add more email addresses if you want the same map to be shared to more recipients.

Add Multi-Colored Territory Boundaries to Your Maps

Creating a map that is color-coded allows you to distinguish your territory boundaries and see trends you may not have been able to before. Take an example of viewing a map of the United States. You want to better distinguish your territory boundaries, but how? Just use our color-coded feature to group states by different colors to make your boundaries stand out and help you gain deeper insights about your territories.

Steps on How to Make a Color-Coded Map

1. Open your map.
2. Click “Add.”
3. Select “Boundaries.”
4. Select the boundary you want to add to your map.
5. Choose “Paste Colors from a Spreadsheet.”
6. Click “Download a Sample Spreadsheet.”
7. Open the template in Excel. You’ll see the shape name in the first column and the color you would like it to appear in the second column. Make any updates you need in the spreadsheet. Delete any rows of shapes you don’t want to appear on your map.
8. Copy and paste the updated spreadsheet into Mapline. Be sure to include the column headers (Shape Name and Color)
9. Click “OK.”

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