topic Re: Qlik Sense Map with Background Image - Data Preparation in App Development

Qlik Sense Map with Background Image - Data Preparation

amitray — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:28:59 GMT

I am working on a report where I have to prepare a map chart something similar to : https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_Hub/Visualizations/Map/map-backgroundimage-example.htm.

However, I am finding it difficult to prepare latitude/longitude data for my image. Could you please help suggesting an efficient and ideal way how the lat-long data could be generated for an image?

Thanks.

Re: Qlik Sense Map with Background Image - Data Preparation

amitray — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 07:24:00 GMT

Could anybody please help?

Re: Qlik Sense Map with Background Image - Data Preparation

Mimiek — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:29:49 GMT

Hi @amitray

I know this is an old post, but perhaps this can help other people to.

I also had difficulties setting the latitude/longitude parameters on my layer background image.
This worked for me:

Imagine your image is 1500px width & 700px height you need to fill in the fields like this:

Set the Top left corner
- Top (latitude) : 700
- Left (longitude) : 0
Set the Bottom right corner
- Bottom (latitude) : 0
- Right (longitude) : 1500

Just keep in mind (that is the reason why I tought it didn't work) you need to put another layer on the screen (point / area layer) actually see the image.

Hope this helps other people to!

Re: Qlik Sense Map with Background Image - Data Preparation

chris_djih — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:01:10 GMT

I ran into the same challenge and decided to publish a full guide:

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-Documents/Complete-Guide-to-Custom-Maps-Custom-Area-Shapes-in-QlikSense/ta-p/1881880