topic Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions in QlikView

Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Brian_Munz — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:26:21 GMT

Hi everyone,

So after releasing the US and Countries Google Map extensions a few days ago, the most common response from people is that it would be great if they could have a map like that for their own country, or for postal codes, or for provinces, or for sales regions, etc. etc.

So I made some modifications and created an extension that allows you to define your own custom regions. Here's an (ugly) example:

Rather than posting all of the implementation instructions on here, I created a quick guide on how to get it up and running.

So, while it might be time consuming or require some steps in finding or converting data, you should be able to map whatever regions you want.

Hope this is helpful. I'm working on some non-Google mapping extensions so look for those soon if these extensions are helpful to you.

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

louwriet — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:46:45 GMT

Hi Brain,

I went through your helpful post and what I see here is exactly what I need. I need to create custom regions. for Africa.

I have downloaded your extensions for USA and world maps and also for the customMap. The USA extension works fine when I select properties but when I try to get to the properties of the world map or the custommap object I get this error. " an error has occured in the script on this page " " unable to get the value of property 0: object is null or undifined" . See attached screenshot.

I have win 7 on my laptop and Qlikview 10.00.9061.7 SR 3 64 bit and has Internet Explorer 9 installed.

Am I missing something somewhere?

Thank you

Louw

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:12:11 GMT

Dear Brian,

Thank you very much for sharing theese extensions!

I wonder, would it be possible to create an extension using google maps that doesn't need to run in webview?

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:56:16 GMT

Hi,

We at Idevio can offer an alternative map solution that doesn't run in webview.

Please contact us directly for more information.

Best regards,

Lisa

www.idevio.com

Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Brian_Munz — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:08:45 GMT

FYI, I've just posted an extension which uses OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap (both of which are free) to do this kindof mapping:

http://community.qlik.com/message/181821#181821

It loads in KML files, allowing for custom (or any other kind of) regions.

Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:04:01 GMT

I'm just curious, is there a way to plot a scatter chart over the heat index?

Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Brian_Munz — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:22:51 GMT

It wouldn't be difficult to do, but this particular extension isn't built to provide it since you're sort of combining two features. Maybe in a future version I can set it up to plot points like, but I would most likely do it with the OpenLayers extension I mentioned above (since it's free).

Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:47:04 GMT

Brian,

Thank you for this post. Would you mind attaching your QVW? I am not getting the regions to work, and would like to compare mine to yours.

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

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Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:13:06 GMT

Hi Brian Munz , i have downloaded your extensions for USA and world maps and also for the customMap. But , unfortunly i'm having the same problem than Louwrie T :

" The USA extension works fine when I select properties but when I try to get to the properties of the world map or the custommap object I get this error. " an error has occured in the script on this page " " unable to get the value of property 0: object is null or undifined" . "

How can i fix that? please help

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:00:54 GMT

Hi All,

GIS/Maps Analytics in QlikView is a very interesting topic indeed.

However, there are many technical limitations in using Google Maps (GMaps) to display QlikView KPI indicators. Indeed, the drill-down, pan and selection capabilities are quite limited. Moreover, you cannot display several indicators at the same time and on the same map (background + foreground indicators), you are also limited to draw bubbles and therefore you cannot display pie/bar charts nor "real" heat maps. Finally, you cannot display QlikView KPIs on specific Sales/Business Areas with GMaps such as the Bricks in the Pharmaceutical sector (Brick = aggregation of zipcodes).

On top of that, there are also a few "commercial" aspects to be considered since many QlikView customers & channel partners use GMaps API "FREE" Key inside their QlikView server or rich client without complying with GMaps license terms...Indeed, for "professional internal use" (intranet, extranet or internet with username/password authentication to QlikView application), you must buy GMaps API "Premier" which costs about 10,000 $ USD per year or 8,500 euros per year + possible extra fees depending upon the total number of daily hits.

A few alternatives exist such as Open Street Map (totally FREE) or other WMS/TMS services. I suggest you to have a look at our new mapping extension for QlikView 11 SR1 namely "GeoQlik v11.6":

http://www.geoqlik.com/en/geoqlik-for-qlikview/geoqlik-v11.html

Please find hereafter a few screenshots of GeoQlik V11.6 using WMS/TMS services to display QlikView KPIs:

Thanks and best regards,

David

@ Business Geografic

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:19:50 GMT

Dear, good afternoon.

I am new to extensions, provided you with this, as I have set it to Brazil? Where should I change?

Grateful.

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:56:24 GMT

Brian,

was able to do according to this book teaches the zip file. However when I selected a portion marked, get a pop-up window. You know how it can be done?

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:25:17 GMT

Hello Brian,

Hope you well. Man I found a extension created by you that is very much what I need, the one called "Custom Region Map" very good one.

Man the only thing that is not working is to set the Color. I have 5 Regions and I am trying to set different colors for them, and every time I go to the Color expression, after typing the expression the same one goes blank.

Also if I have not Color Expression the hot color is not working.

Can you advise? I am using QV Desktop Version 11 SR1.

Best regards,

Jorge

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:08:59 GMT

Hello Brian and everyone, great work! I follow the steps to customize Brazil's regions, so I've change regions.js, but isn't work. Check it out:

var cJSON = {};

// The below lines are simply examples of how to format the custom code.

// make sure to put a comma after each region's section (except for the last one)

// Don't forget to put the polyline within the two tags!

cJSON = {

"SP": {

"poly": " ljqiC|yeaIc}uLkybHgho@qqnBeo_AwvfFrig@}~eBff_@ynyCghg@gl}Apf_@gtcAntgDgl}Ah{vB?pteEsia@hdfAgl}Aoln@{v_C}lv@cldE|lv@sa{@ve~@rqGrxmApqnBfdn@znyCrpV|flAnoeAddwBxz{BlaiGtlu@pa{@?h|i@kxlAria@gl}@ddwBuh|Btia@g`uBf|i@u~mApihCe|FxnyCot^dldEl|Fpa{@hqf@|nr@iqYndSk|FrmTwpn@ghjB ",

"label": "POKPKMMOMKMOJMPMNBLKLLPMMJOMKMLMJNP"

"east": {

"poly": " akm_GnwsjNf~jLidPbfm@w{lPteoF{nyCx~oAcd~ExttChtcAcfeBe|pC_}fOuvmIivy@oabDq{lAu~sHmplB{nyCo_eCh|i@g_wB_wX{djA}nr@iauBuqGk_wDdtjDq~kBtqGpj{DfyiK|l|@lv{OxxeE|~eBc`Xzs_NbjoDdl}A|be@x~lEjnXria@ ",

"label":"PPONOPMOKMPMLLPMPNOONNKP"

"blank": {

"poly":" ",

"label":""

}

When I reloaded my QVW, just appear the "east" region. Even I put "SP" like a value in dimension "Estado". Could you help me to fix this ?

Regards.

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:46:20 GMT

Hi, I'm not able to use the color expression to configure the custom map. Has anybody an example which really works? I tried an If then else expression - but it doesn't work.

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:06:40 GMT

Hi I probably have a silly question  In chart properties, how do I get the Region name in ? the field is not active What have I missed in the instruction

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

perumal_41 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:58:40 GMT

Hi Brian,

http://gmapspolytool.gmapify.fr/ link is not working,I am getting error

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

any alternate tool for draw own region polyline.

Regards,

Perumal A

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:54:51 GMT

Brian

i just downloaded the extension and found the region details are loading from the called us states.xls. i could not able to find in the extension folder. would like to know the file structure ie Data file.

Thanks you

Srini

Re: Geospatial Map Extension for Custom Regions

Brian_Munz — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:42:26 GMT

I think the xml I used can be found here:

http://econym.org.uk/gmap/states.xml