What's the status with Geographic Mapping?

[johnpaul]

Hi all,

I haven't found out how best to use either Google or Bing maps.

My requirement is to have a map of the country and then using call centre data, show big bubbles where lots of calls come from and little ones where they don't.

The post code will be mapped (sic) to the long / lat so that works OK.

There was a demo of the London property prices for QV 9 that worked OK on my old laptop with QV9, but apparently it doesn't work the best with QV10. Now I can't find the download link anymore for that qvw and so I can't test it.

Now having done some searching, many people recommend that we use a third part add-on.

I have looked at the Google Maps API, and then my question is which one? If I want to use flash, it won't work on the 32 bit verison.

If I want to create a map on a server, will it ever work?

Thanks for any input.

[#2]

Hi,

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. First of all, 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