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Create an interactive population map

Interactive population map gives users an overview about population density in different parts of the world or within a country. With the help of population map, users can understand more about the population distribution.

The range of population density starts with yellow color, depicting 0 to 5000000 people, and ends with pink color which shows 20000000 and above people. Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio are the states that having the highest population in the United States. Place a mouseover on the WA, CA, CO, PA or NY for more details.

a) Download the software

Download and install iMapBuilder from its official website.

b) Using the Wizard

Invoke the Wizard by selecting Show Wizard from the File menu.

Note: The Wizard automatically opens each time you open the iMapBuilder - Interactive Flash Map Software. Using the Wizard you can also open projects saved and created earlier.

Click Create in the Create New Map Project panel.

Select your map on the left under Available Maps and a preview can be seen in the Preview window on the left. You can also filter the map by category, select the "United States " category on the right so that the layout of United States maps will be displayed. In the Preview window click any of the Layout buttons to align the map. You can also browse through the list of maps using the Next and Previous buttons .

Note: you can also align the in the Preview Panel of the main window using similar Layout buttons.

c) Enable grouped highlight area feature

Click OK and the map is opened. Click to enable grouped highlight area feature.
Set a group ID for each region. For example, number '1' indicates the region has less than 5 million people, '2' indicates the population of the region is between 5000001 and 10000000, and so on. Click icon to apply the same set of colors for each grouped area.
You can also click to fill in the ID in numerical value, or import your data from an excel unicode text file (.txt) by pressing [Import from Excel] or click [Paste all from clipboard] button to paste the data from clipboard. Export the data to Excel by pressing [Export to Excel] for calculations in Excel Spreadsheet if necessary.
Click [Verify Data] to verify if the numbers are valid integer values.
Click to save the settings.

d) Add map legend

A legend is needed to list the color used on the map and help users to understand the meaning of what each color represents. To add legend, you can click on the icon at the top.
Points & Lines pop up window is displayed. Click to add legend items.
Check Import Country/State/Region Color List. Click .

Edit the description field. Click and .

e) Add mouse over tooltips/infobox to show election results for each state
Click to add points or to draw clickable regions on top of the map. For details, please visit our userguide of adding points or defining clickable regions.
Enter population for each state under Mouse Over/Click Event tab. Click to continue.