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Map Chart Web Part - Release 1.0 - from Bamboo Solutions
What Does It Do?
The Map Chart Web Part allows the user to create a map view and to color-code list data based on fields such as address, city, state and/or country. The Map Chart Web Part enables you to color-code your data using ranges and data operators such as sum, average and count. Create specific map views to display data by city, state, country or region. A full library of maps is provided, covering continents, countries, U.S. states, and major cities. .
| Map Chart Web Part vs. SharePoint Out-of-the-Box Functionality |
SharePoint Out-of-the-box | Map Chart |
| Provides color-coding based on continents, countries, US states, cities and zip codes. |  |
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| Value range color-coding of map for scenarios such as Sales Per Country. | |
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| Support of data operations such as summary, count or average. | |
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| Display additional metadata (sales, population, etc.) along with color-coded regions. | |
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| Show data from a SharePoint list and list view. | |
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| Interface to back-end databases through ODBC drivers. | Coming soon | |
| Maps provided for: Continents, US States and Counties, Major Countries. | |
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 Includes partial support for this feature. Custom coding may be required. |
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How Does It Work?
The Map Chart Web Part reads the geographic data from your SharePoint list or backend SQL database and displays information on a map image. You can configure the data source to be a SharePoint List or a SQL table or view. Then configure the geocoding for the Web Part to use columns from the data source for displaying address, city, state and country information.
Why Did We Build It?
An ever increasing number of companies are choosing SharePoint as a collaboration system. One of the main attractions with SharePoint is the ability to quickly build a shared information database through the use of Lists. SharePoint lists can render data in multiple views to present the information in various formats tailored for use by different sets of users. These views can be a list, calendar or other custom views such as our Gantt chart view. One of the views that out-of-the-box SharePoint is missing is the Map View for SharePoint lists that may contain geographic data. For example, address fields in a contact list or a customer list that is being used to manage sales and marketing information.
