Geography Matters

# T C 1 8

Ashwin Kumar

Product Manager, Maps

@theonlyashwin

Ryan Whitley

Engineering Manager, Maps

@apollolm

Ask the Maps Dev Team any question about Maps, Spatial Data, GIS Workflows

Kent Marten

Staff Product Manager, Maps and Spatial Analysis

@datakmart

Tableau MappingCapabilities Overview

Geocoding

• Built-in map data

• Auto column detection

• One-click away from map

• World Views

• Synonyms

Geographic Roles:Country/Region, State/Province, County, City, Zip Code, Congressional Districts, CBSA/MSA, Airports, EU NUTS Codes

Spatial Datasources• 10.2 – Shapefiles, KML, MapInfo Tables, GeoJSON

• 2018.1 – SQL Server Spatial

• 2018.3 – Esri File Geodatabases, TopoJSON

Background Maps• ArcGIS Integration via WMS, WMTS

• Mapbox

• Background Images

Tableau Mapping Capabilities Overview

Advanced Spatial • 2018.2 – Spatial Join via Intersects

• 2018.3 – Heatmaps

Interactivity• 10.5 – Viz in Tooltips

• 2018.3 – Set Actions

Tableau Mapping Capabilities Overview

Background Maps• 2019 – Vector Maps

• 2019 – More styles (Satellite, Streets, Basic, Topographic)

• 2019 – More layers (building footprints, terrain, neighborhood labels, more POIs)

Interactivity • 2019 – Parameter Actions

And more…• Extensions

Tableau Mapping Capabilities Coming Soon

Resources

• Online Help / Knowledge Base• https://www.tableau.com/mapdata• https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop

/en-us/maps_build.html

• Forums• https://community.tableau.com/welcome

• Blogs• https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/contributors/s

arah-battersby• Use Google!

• Helpful links• http://qgis.com/

Questions?

Mappy Hour!

R E L AT E D S E S S I O N S

Today | 2:15pm – 3:15pm | MCCNO – L3 – 335

Please complete the

session survey from the

Session Details screen

in your TC18 app

Thank you!

#TC18