Filled maps are great. I am using them at a country level - and we group countries into Regions (eg Europe). Is there a way that I can have all the ountries in Europe filled with the same measure. I know I could assign "Europe" to a country - but to a group of countries?
Any ideas appreciated.
Karen, it sounds like you want to color a region by a 'continuous' measure. It would look like this, only the greens would change by region (Europe) instead of by country:
Unfortunately when we are using Tableau's native geography we can only get continuous color for the native geographies. The minute we put countries in a group to create a region, then Tableau changes the color to discrete:
So ultimately we can't use T's native geographies to put continuous color of a measure on a 'regions' map. So that leaves these options:
- Contact our friends at Urban Mapping and contract them to create custom geographies for you.
- Create a custom shapefile for your particular regions and import it into Tableau using Richard Leeke shapetotab utility
- Join Allan's crowd sourced WMS project, and let him serve up your regions.
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There may be others. Hope this helps. Let us know if you need help once you pick an option.
Cheers,
--Shawn
