Geo Charts (Pushpins)

Geo charts (pushpins) show data broken down geographically. Geo charts show data points as bubbles using the coordinates from the location attribute. In addition, geo charts can display the size of the bubbles in proportions using another metric. If you add an attribute to the Segment by section, the bubbles get different colors for each value.

Map showing shop daily revenue with multicolored dots. Dot size represents Daily revenue and Segment by is set to City. Position is in the Location bucket.

Geo charts (pushpins) have the following sections:

  • Location
  • Metric (Size)
  • Metric (Color)
  • Segment by
  • Configuration

For information about common characteristics and settings of all visualizations, see the Visualization Types section.

To set a specific part of the map to be seen when you open the visualization, go to Configuration > Map > Default viewport and select a part of the map.

For the configuration options common for all visualizations, see the Configure Visualization Properties section.

Configure Data for Geo Charts

For information about the preparation of data for geo charts (pushpins), see the Configure Data for Geo Charts section.

Examples

Location Display

This example shows the distribution of shops of a fictional company.

Put the Position attribute in the Location section. Each dot represents the location where a shop is present. All dots have the same size.

Map with blue dots showing shop locations. Each dot represents a shop location using the Position attribute in the Location bucket in the left panel. No size or color metric is applied.

For large maps, you can group nearby points so that the displayed map is not overcrowded. In the Configuration section, go to Points and select Group nearby points.

The following images show identical data - ungrouped and grouped.

Side-by-side maps showing ungrouped and grouped points across the world. Left map displays individual blue points while the right map displays clustered circles with counts, demonstrating Group nearby points enabled in the Configuration section.

Dot Size Based on Value

If you want to see a different size of the dots based on the metric value, add a metric to the Metric (size) section.

Map with green circles of varying sizes showing city population under 4 million. The Position attribute is in the Location bucket and Sum of Population is in the Metric (size) bucket.

To adjust the size of the smallest and largest dots, go to Configuration > Map > Points and select the value in the dropdown menus.

Configuration panel for geo chart point sizes. The Points section is expanded showing a dropdown to set the dot size scale, with 1.25x selected.

Dot Color Shade Based on Metric Value

If you put an item to the Metric (color) section, the data displays different shades of the color based on the metric value.

Map showing cities with population under 4 million. Dot size and color reflect population values. Sum of Population is in the Metric (size) bucket and Population is in the Metric (color) bucket.

Dot Color Based on Attribute Value

If you put an attribute to the Segment by section, the data displays a different color for each attribute value.

The following image shows the population in cities segmented by country:

Map showing city population under 4 million segmented by country. Dots vary in color by country and in size by population, with Sum of Population in the Metric (size) bucket and Country in Segment by.
Configure Data for Geo Charts

Upload Access Tokens for Geo Charts

Configure Data for Geo Charts