Filled Maps In Tableau

This is caused by a couple of countries having particularly high or low values and therefore skewing the colours. Choropleth maps (filled maps) also known as filled maps in tableau, choropleth maps are great for showing ratio data. Fill maps are more visual—with recognizable boundaries and marks shaped like known areas.

It does have the lat/long though, so just change your chart type to circle. Instead of circles or squares to display data points, the filled map uses shading on a country or state basis to indicate relationships. Choropleth maps are best suitable for visualizing data for polygons.

Often when you use a filled map in tableau and colour it using a particular measure the map looks rather bland.

Select the measure city and the measure number of records and then select fill map on show me. To create a symbol map we need 1 geographical dimension , 0 to 2 measures. In this post, i will be using data on main type of roofing in kenya to show how different roofing materials vary across different county's. 1) choropleth or filled tableau custom maps.