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Heat Map

Heat map can be used to show the hotness or density of regions on your map. Our software allows the creation of a heat map using the Heat Map Data Values from each region of the map template, with continuous or range-based coloring of the regions.

Enable heat map feature

You can enable the heat map feature by the following ways.

  • Click the Heat Map Settings button on the horizontal toolbar, and select Turn On in the Heat Map Data dialog.
  • Expand the Map Properties Panel to the right hand side of the editor. Heat map can be toggled under the Map Features section.

You may follow our video tutorial to set up a heat map.

Types of heat map

We support two types of heat map - Continuous Color and Discrete Range Color. You can change the type of the heat map by the following ways:

  • Click the Heat Map Settings button on the horizontal toolbar, and select the desired type in the Heat Map Data dialog.
  • Expand the Map Properties Panel to the right hand side of the editor. Heat map can be seen under the Map Features section. Click the Edit button to open the Heat Map Data dialog and select your desired type there.
Heat Map Data dialog

Continuous color

Continuous color refers to a gradient of colors generated from all heat map data values.

  • Start Color: This is used by the smallest value from your heat map data.
  • End Color: This is used by the largest value from your heat map data.
  • Highlight Color: This is used when you hover the region by your mouse pointer.

Discrete range color

Discrete range color refers to color selections based on the range of values from the heat map data values. You can explicitly set your own color for certain range of values. Here are the ways to set things up.

  1. Choose Discrete range color from the Heat Map Data dialog.
  2. Click the Range and color setting button to setup the data ranges and their colors.
  3. In the Discrete Range Color dialog, define your range limits by clicking the Add button to the lower left corner of the dialog.
  4. Enter your range limits in the Discrete Range Limit dialog and click OK to continue. Consider these examples on how to set up the data ranges:
    Range limits Discrete ranges created
    -10, 0, 10, 20, 30
    • < -10
    • -10 to 0
    • 0 to 10
    • 10 to 20
    • 20 to 30
    • >= 30
    25
    • < 25
    • >= 25
  5. You may further modify the range limits by using the Add or Delete buttons under the Define Range Limits box.
  6. Discrete ranges are automatically generated on the right hand box. Each range can be associated with its own color. You can select the range in the list and change the color under Manually Assign section on the right.
  7. You can also generate a gradient of colors for your ranges by changing the Lowest Range and Highest Range colors under Generate Gradient Color section on the right. Click Generate and the colors are automatically chosen for the ranges.
  8. You may further move the color of one range to another by using the Up/Down button above the ranges.
  9. Click OK to finish setting up for ranges.
  10. Change the Highlight Color that to be shown when you hover the region by your mouse pointer.
  11. Click OK to complete the set up.

Setting up heat map data

You can add or modify your heat map data in these ways.

  • Select a region on the map and change the Heat Map Data value in the Region Properties panel.
  • Open the Data Grid and change the value in the Heat Map Data column directly.
  • You may export the Regional Properties from the Data Grid and change the heat map data using Microsoft Office or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Calc. Then import the data back into the Data Grid.

Disable heat map feature for some regions

  • Select a region on the map and tick the Disable checkbox after Heat Map Data in the Region Properties panel.
  • Open the Data Grid and tick the Disable checkbox in the Disable Heat Map column directly. You may right click on this column, and choose to Apply to All or Apply to group to disable heat map pattern to all regions or regions of same group of regions.

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