QlikView 11.2 SR5 and Maps - Qlik Community

Alexander_Thor · ‎2013-12-20

You wake up in the morning and head down to the living room; faintly you hear a lingering “hohoho” from the chimney. Santa was here – and he left us something wonderful!

Santa is early this year, not only did he bring us a new and shiny service release for QlikView he also included a free to use mapping extension!

When you install the latest version of QlikView, http://www.qlik.com/download/, we now ship an Example Extension Object that makes use of OpenLayers and MapQuest.

So how do I make use of this sweet nectar you say?
Let me take you on a journey and explore some mapping possibilities!

Head out and install the latest version of QlikView, make sure you install the examples.
Navigate to C:\Program Files\QlikView\Examples\Extensions and double click the “Extensions Examples.qar” file. This will install all of the extension examples.
Open the QlikView “Extension Examples that you can find in C:\Program Files\QlikView\Examples\Documents\
In the Mapping tabs you will find examples on how to plot either dots/points, lines or polygons.

Attached to this post you will also find a dataset and an app that contains all of the high speed cameras in Sweden with corresponding latitude and longitude points if you want to play around with the extension, make sure you install the extension first, on your own.

Keep on Qliking!

Keep in mind

Extensions are generally built upon web technologies such as HTML and JavaScript and for QlikView to be able to render these objects on the screen you will need to run QlikView Desktop with WebView mode enabled or access the document through the AJAX-client over AccessPoint. The IE-plugin does not support extensions.

Disclaimer

The QlikView Mapping Example Extension can be configured to use many different map tile sources.

Each map tiles source has its own terms and conditions and the user assume all responsibility for the selection of a source for map tiles and for compliance with the terms and conditions of the selected source. Any and all liability associated with the selection of a tile source and the compliance with the terms and conditions of the selected source is hereby disclaimed.

phaneendra_kunc · ‎2013-12-20

Will this extension supported by qliktech, if there are any issues?

Alexander_Thor · ‎2013-12-21

Examples are provided 'as is' and are not covered by the maintenance agreement.
With that said - there is basically three things that could potentially break (probably more but trying to illustrate a point here.

JavaScript errors caused by a bug in your browsers javascript vm. Out of our control.
Data quality issues - your data set is not 100% accurate causing the extension to show faulty data.
Map tiles - QT does not own the map data. In this case it's OpenStreetMap tiles provided through Mapquest. OSM is a great open source project which I encourage everyone to check out however if for example a small river is missing from the map it's hard for us to 'own that problem' which saying we support this extension would imply.

If however QlikView has a bug that would affect extensions causing all/any/some extensions to fail then yes that would be covered under the maintenance agreement as the JS API is part of the product.

tl;dr - No. But most likely you won't experience any problems and if you do it's likely that error is supported as part of the API.

Anonymous · ‎2013-12-21

Alexander

Looks very promising.

Having just looked on the web, both OpenLayers and MapQuest appear to free. So is this ok licence wise to just use this or does one need to purchase additional 3rd party licensing for Business use on an internal local network ?

[Obviously one would need QlikView licensing sorted]

Best Regards, Bill

Alexander_Thor · ‎2013-12-21

Hi Bill,

No third party licenses has to be purchased if you are using the OpenLayers and MapQuest tiles.

MapQuest appreciates any heads up if you would drive an enormous amount of traffic in their direction, 4000 tiles/second over a sustained period of time.

You do have the option to change the map tiles provider to something else then it's up to you make sure you are following that providers ToC.

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2013-12-24

Nice

jpapador · ‎2013-12-24

Anyone having trouble getting the event calendar to work on the server. The object shows up on the list as an extension object but when you add it to the document QV adds a plain calendar object. Using the AJAX client on both IE8 and FF. Works fine if you just use the desktop in web view tho.

valerio_fatatis · ‎2013-12-30

Great update for direct select metodology and function very efficent.

The new map extention is new jump.

Report Inappropriate Content · ‎2014-01-02

Very nice . Does the object support multipolygons?

Anonymous · ‎2014-01-06

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More information on http://www.geoqlik.com/.

Anonymous · ‎2014-01-08

Hi Alexander,

very nice but..

any chance the extension can be updated with the option of changing the tooltip?

right now it simply says example tooltip which is not that useful.

thanks

Magnus