| Interactive Maps
EspressReport ES supports interactive maps in addition to traditional reporting,
adding yet another powerful dimension to data visualization/presentation, and
user-experience enhancement. Visualization of data in geographical and spatial
formats can be very useful for analysis and decision support. One can easily
think of many common and diverse questions that can be answered with enhanced
visualization with maps: How is my sales coverage? Where do I get the most
revenue? What is the demographic distribution? How is my political campaign
doing geographically? What is my (global) company's human capital
distribution? Where do the visitors to my web site come from?
EspressReport ES makes it easy for you to make interactive maps for reporting and include
them in dashboards. The two types of maps supported are Google map and SVG maps.
With high quality imagery and a very wide zoom, Google Maps are useful for displaying
exact locations on maps. You can use geocoding to locate buildings/cities on the map knowing
just their addresses. Usage of Google Maps is limited by Google Maps Terms of Service
(To see the current version visit Google Maps API Terms of Service). Google Maps can contain
Tool-tips and DrillDowns. Tool-tips are small reports or charts, which are displayed on
mouse over a map marker. They can be used to display brief summary information related to
the selected location. DrillDowns are links to parameterized charts, reports or other maps,
when the user clicks on a map marker. They are usually used to display more detailed information
about the selected location.
The other supported map format is SVG. An SVG map, as the name implies, displays the map with
SVG image. EspressReport ES distributes several SVG image files of the continents of the
world, which you can use to customize for your application. Instead of displaying tool-tips
on map points, SVG maps work with areas. You can color code areas on the map based on the
range of data defined for the area of interest. Drilldown to charts, reports or other maps
is supported in the same way as in Google maps.
You can mix and match map types for drilldown, i.e. a Google map can drilldown to another
Google map or SVG map, and vice versa.
Data sources supported for both types of maps are same as those for reports, i.e. JDBC compliant
databases, text files, Java classes, WSDL and Salesforce SOAP services, XML files, JDNI, and EBJ.
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