OverviewOverview

The Map is a tool for displaying documents and entities with geo data on a map. It displays documents and entities in both clusters and a heatmap. Custom KML layers can also be loaded (but Mapquest only supports a small subset of the KML language currently). 

Definitions:

• Ignore Workspace Filtering - Ignores filtering enabled by other widgets

• Click to Filter mode - Clicking on document will filter workspace on selected doc

• Region Selection mode - Draw a radius to add region to query, add geo decay, or zoom

• Overlays - Select Map or Satellite mode

• Show Menu - Heat Map Overlay, Geo-tagged documents, entities, events, KML Layers

• Display Types - Point, City, CountrySubsidiary, Country, Geographical Region, Continent

• KML Layers - Show/Hide additional KML layers

• Export to KML -

Using the Widget

Workspace Filtering

Map: Click the Image Removed icon to 'enter click-to-filter' mode, then click on a document cluster Image Removed to investigate the corresponding documents in the Doc Viewer or Entity Significance.

Region Selection Mode

To use region selection mode

The following options are then possible from the selection panel

Add region to query:

Set region as geo decay:

Zoom to region:

Cancel region selection:

Exporting to KML

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Using the Widget

The map displays the documents, entities and events from your query.  By default, these elements are displayed as a heat map, based on geo tags.  The documents are displayed on the map using the following legend:

Icon	Description
Image Added	Geographic areas with the greatest concentration of documents are displayed in red.
Image Added	Geographic areas with a medium concentration of documents are displayed in green.
Image Added	Geographic areas with a low concentration of documents are displayed in blue.

Workspace Filtering

You can use workspace filtering with the map widget, to view corresponding documents in other widgets (Doc. Viewer, Entity Significance etc.).

1. Ensure that the Map widget and at least one other widget are visible on the workspace.
2. Click on one of the icons representing a cluster of documents.  The other visualizations are filtered, according to which document cluster is enabled.

Region Selection Mode

You can use Region Selection mode to easily adjust your query, based on the geo selection in the Map widget.

To use region selection mode

1. From the map widget, click on the region selection icon.Image Added
2. Click and drag the curser to encompass the geographic region of your choice.
3. Select from one of the following options.

The map query and display properties are updated according to your selection.

Exporting to KML (Google Maps Visualization)

You can use the map widget to make an export to KML format.  This enables you to easily view the map using the third party mapping tool of your choice

To export a KML for current query data:

1. Select the appropriate communities and sources for your query

2. Input desired search terms and run query

3. Drag the Map widget into workspace

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1. From the map widget, select the  icon along the top row of the Map

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1. Widget Image Added.

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1. Select

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1. Export to

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1. kml.

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1. Enter a title, select location (Desktop), and save KML file.

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1. Open KML file in 3rd party Mapping tool of your choice (i.e. Google Earth).