Geographic location

The Geographic location property settings are used if you want to make changes to the automatic attempt to place geographical elements. For example, you may want to perform the geocoding using other data columns than the ones selected in the attempt, or you may want to switch between coordinate-based and name-based placement of geographical elements.

Used by

Tip: See Supported administrative boundaries for more information.
Type Default value Description
Feature by (geocoding) (depends on the data)

[This option is available for feature layers only.]

Select one or more columns in the data to specify how the feature is placed. If you select a column that contains multiple entries in the geocoding table, a warning is displayed in the title area and the feature might not be drawn correctly. For more information on geocoding, see the Spotfire Analyst help topic What is Geocoding?

Name-based (geocoding) (depends on the data)

[This option is available for marker layers only.]

Use this option to place markers according to the geographical name in the data. The markers for the geographical names are automatically positioned (by means of the geocoding tables) on the their geographical coordinates on the map.

Coordinate-based (depends on the data)

[This option is available for marker layers only.]

Use this option to place markers using columns in your data that contain coordinates.
  • X-column (longitude): Set to a column containing longitudinal information (for example, XMin, XMax, or XCenter, or longitude).
  • Y-column (latitude): Set to a column containing latitudinal information (for example, YMin, YMax, or YCenter, or latitude).
  • Marker by: Specify a column to let markers represent aggregated values. See Aggregating coordinate-based locations values.