Amazon QuickSight launches Layer Map

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Amazon QuickSight launches Layer Map, a new geospatial visual with shape layer support. With Layer Maps you can visualize data using custom geographic boundaries, such as congressional districts, sales territories, or user-defined regions. For example, sales managers can visualize sales performance by custom sales territories, and operations analysts can map package delivery volumes across different zip code formats (zip 2, zip 3).

Authors can add shape layer over a base map by uploading GeoJSON file and join it with their data to visualize values. You can also style shape layer by adjusting color, border, and opacity, as well as add interactivity through tooltips and actions. To learn more, click here.

Layer map is now available in following Amazon QuickSight regions - US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich), South America (SĂŁo Paulo).

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-quicksight-layer-map
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@amazonquicksight thank you for launching this feature. It opens up a lot of opportunities. :grinning:

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Glad to hear this feedback @Thanh-Binh.Ngo! Enjoy this new feature! :slight_smile: :tada:

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My team would love to start using this feature. @Kristin, is there any additional news or examples that are available in your sandbox? We don’t have experience using geojson files and would love a point of reference.

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Hi @Sean_Bridgeman,

Have you seen this blog?

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Hey @David_Wong this is really helpful. As I understand it, we would still need to map our location data (ZIP or latitude and longitude) to the region on a layer map, correct? E.g. I have my geojson details below, I would still need to provide QuickSight a dataset that maps locations to this area (e.g. Greater Denver Area)?

If so, are there any tools/services that you recommend to do this?

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {},
      "geometry": {
        "coordinates": [
          [
            [
              -105.48823650348612,
              40.7508581808527
            ],
            [
              -105.48823650348612,
              39.505901906773346
            ],
            [
              -104.48274400133732,
              39.505901906773346
            ],
            [
              -104.48274400133732,
              40.7508581808527
            ],
            [
              -105.48823650348612,
              40.7508581808527
            ]
          ]
        ],
        "type": "Polygon"
      },
      "id": 0
    }
  ]
}

Appreciate the support.

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@Sean_Bridgeman

When I tried it, I was able to map the “borough” key in my file with a field in my dataset.

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Sorry, I’m not aware of a service that you can use to do that. I know how to reverse geocode a point but not a polygon.

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