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nikhilgarg · ‎2017-10-23

Hello Everyone,

I am new to qliksense and need some help regarding maps

We all know about political Geographic boundaries. But in my project, we have defined Market territories and based on that we are creating state boundaries.

For ex: If we have:

Following Market territory On India Map under Tamil Nadu as:

MKT1, MKT2, MKT3

Following Market territory On India Map under Andhra Pradesh as:

MKT4, MKT5, MKT6

Now, in my project, i have:

Following Market territory under Tamil Nadu as:

MKT1, MKT2

Following Market territory under Andhra Pradesh as:

MKT4, MKT6

Following Market territory under Tamil Nadu-Karnataka as:

MKT3, MKT5

I have to create a state mapping(Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu-Karnataka) and show them accordingly on maps in qliksense.

How can i acheive this? Does anyone came across such situation?

vikasmahajan‌ gwassenaar‌ hic‌, mtarallo‌ Can you help me in this?

Thanks,

Nikhil Garg

Michael_Tarallo · ‎2017-10-26

OK - thanks for the clarification - so in this aspect you would need to create custom boundaries in the KML file to represent what you want. A tool such as Creating KML Files for Your Custom Google Maps: 4 Steps - might be what you need. Then you would use that KML file with your data.

Also Check out this great resource: Country Administrative Boundary KML shape / area files from open source GIS data.Create a KML polygon shape file manually and use it in Qlik Sense Country Administrative Boundary KML shape / area files from open source GIS data.

HTH

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Michael_Tarallo · ‎2017-10-25

Hi Nikhil - thanks for reaching out - I did not see this until you replied as a comment in the other post - my Qlik handle is not mtarallo - that is my test account - so I won't see notifications. If you ever need to reach me - you can tag me with @michael_tarallo and then select mto form the list. However - I may not always reply.

I may not be understanding this correctly - but let me give it a shot.

In regards to this - this takes some thought. If the state boundaries to be displayed are the same coordinates, but are only identified my different keys (MKT1, MKT2, MKT3) - I would imagine that you would have to edit the KML of the map - to use those identifiers for the States you want to display.

I attached some quick sample data a a sample app - here when I select Mike (Rep) - it shows me FL and GA as mine and if I select Jeff it shows me NY and NJ.

Basically in the KML file (US MAP) - there is a <PLACEMARK> tag that holds the key that you associate on - and what I did was replace the traditional State ISO2 Code with the key value that is linked to my sales reps - so FL and GA became MKT1 and NY and NJ became MKT2.

The I associated my sales table (mike_map_data) - on the "market" field to the mike_US.Name field in the map data (KML file)

Is this what you mean?

<![CDATA[<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=250 style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">

<tr>

</font>

</td>

</td>

</tr>

</table>]]>

</description>

</Placemark>

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Michael_Tarallo · ‎2017-10-25

BTW - this is using our default mapping - not Qlik GeoAnalytics - just so you know.

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Mike Tarallo
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nikhilgarg · ‎2017-10-26

Hey ,

Thanks Pooja. My mistake was i was using KPI oblject and checking value of variable in that. However when i take Text Object it works fine.

Thanks anyways

nikhilgarg · ‎2017-10-26

Hello Michael,

Thanks for your help. Will take a note of your id. Also, i guess i need to make some more efforts to make my problem clear . My scenario is:

Let say under country INDIA, i have two states 1: Tamil Nadu and 2: Andhra Pradesh.

Under Tamil Nadu state, i have 3 cities TN1, TN2, TN3

Under Andhra Pradesh, i have 3 cities AP1, AP2, AP3

But, for my project, i have make some custom boundaries(that does not exist in reality.)

For my project, i have cities TN3 and AP3 in "new custom state boundary i.e. TNA"(which does not exist in reality on India map).

So, finally i need to show in my INDIA map 3 boundaries:

Tamil Nadu having cities: TN1, TN2

Andhra Pradesh having cities: AP1, AP2

TNA having cities: TN3 and AP3(TNA does not exist on INDIA map in reality, we need to make it for our project)

I hope now i ahve make myself more clear. Can you help me on this?

Michael_Tarallo · ‎2017-10-26

OK - thanks for the clarification - so in this aspect you would need to create custom boundaries in the KML file to represent what you want. A tool such as Creating KML Files for Your Custom Google Maps: 4 Steps - might be what you need. Then you would use that KML file with your data.

Also Check out this great resource: Country Administrative Boundary KML shape / area files from open source GIS data.Create a KML polygon shape file manually and use it in Qlik Sense Country Administrative Boundary KML shape / area files from open source GIS data.

HTH

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Michael Tarallo (@mtarallo) | Twitter

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Mike Tarallo
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nikhilgarg · ‎2017-10-27

Thanks Mike. Let me try and will get back to you.

nikhilgarg · ‎2017-10-29

Thanks, it helps. Can you help me in this?

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Making State boundary differ from existing state boundary