I am currently working with a Points on Map visual in Quick and looking for a way to add an extra layer of detail to my geographic hierarchy.
My current setup: I have a map visual where data points are aggregated at the City level.
The Challenge: Within a single city, I have multiple individual entities—specifically, Institution Names (e.g., high schools or colleges) with their own respective metrics.
Right now, when I hover over a city point on the map, the tooltip attempts to display the institutions, but it acts as an aggregate or forces me to look at data condensed to that single city bubble. I want the map visual itself to natively support a deeper level of detail where multiple distinct institution points can be plotted/layered accurately within their respective cities or handled via a drill-down that splits the city into its component institutions.
Questions for the community:
Is there a way to add Institution Name as a secondary Level of Detail / Dimension in the Points on Map visual field wells without breaking the map’s primary geographic aggregation?
If this isn’t natively supported yet, has anyone found a robust workaround using calculated fields (like concat) or customized actions to switch views from City down to Institution?
Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated!
Hi @Vishal_M,
I’m not quite sure how your data is setup in regards to hierarchy but you can go lower with various geospatial options like postcode or latitude/longitude.
One other way though you could work around this would be with the new sheet tooltip feature that allows you to add visuals into tool tips. So if you scroll over a respective city on your map, it will show the data points linked to that city (see below):
In the format visual menu, you can adjust the tooltip to ‘sheet tooltip’ which will jump you to another sheet to setup your tool tip. The above is a pretty rough design for an example but you can adjust and design so that it looks much better
Thanks for the great suggestion regarding the sheet tooltips!
I decided to try going to a lower geographic level by adding exact Latitude and Longitude coordinates so I can see the individual points. However, I am now running into a new issue: the underlying base map (street view/imagery) won’t show up at all.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the points are plotting in the correct shape/distribution, but the map background is just a solid dark canvas.
