Mapping your excel spreadsheet transforms your location-based sales data into live, interactive maps which you can share with your team. Reporting on sales performance can be gruelling, especially when you're looking at local, regional, and national figures. In addition to reporting on the final figures, you need to compare performance of over 100 sales reps across 50 states by analyzing 300,000 sales records. This results in multiple worksheets with thousands of records that you need to wade through in order...

Bubble maps are one of the best ways to communicate proportional location-based data in a clear and concise way. Like Heat Maps, Bubble Maps summarize your data by regions, different circle sizes represent different value ranges; the large the circle the higher the aggregate value for that region. For Example, to quickly identify and analyze the volume of sales, or customers in each state or sales territory, analyze performance over regions, and gap analysis. Bubble maps are great for attaching...

This article was last updated June 2015 If you have an eSpatial Team or Enterprise license, you can avail of the Groups & Users functionality, for collaborative mapping. This allows complete control over who sees your Excel datasets and maps - and who can edit them. Step 1: Add a Group Open the map you want to share. Click on the shaded dropdown username button (top right of screen) and select Manage Group & Users. On the next screen, you...

Would you like to map multiple locations like this: Well, a map with multiple locations can be created in 3 easy steps using eSpatial. Step one If you haven't done so already, sign up for a free eSpatial trial. All you need to supply is an email address and a self-created password. For that, you get an account for as long as you want it and also 7- day access to eSpatial Pro, which has bells and whistles too numerous...

When you create an eSpatial heat map, default colors are used - ranging from yellow to red - to highlight levels of data values within a specified region: However, you can easily customize these colors (you can go as wacky as you want!): How to change heat map colors In the Legend window, hover over the heatmap dataset (it's the one with the polygon shape - not the marker - beside it), and select Style & Color: This should open...

A choropleth map is another name for a heat map - it visualizes the level (or intensity) of measurable data in specific geographical areas. Benefits of a choropleth map For instance, imagine you wanted to see - at a glance - the most heavily populated areas of a state, per county. You would assign each county with a shade that represented the level of population. A sparsely populated county might be represented by a light pink colour, while a heavily...

This article was last updated July 2017 Why Choose Radius Maps Radius maps are great for proximity analysis, how far is the nearest hotel to an airport, how many customers are within 10 miles of your sales reps, etc. With eSpatial, you can create eye-catching radius maps in minutes. Radius maps can help generate greater efficiency by demonstrating areas where coverage is either too much or too little, assigning the right people to the right areas, and more. Radius maps...