Mapbox

The Mapbox component is a visualization component that displays a dynamic and interactive map.

Mapbox Properties

The Mapbox properties consist of LAYOUT & POSITIONING, MAP SETTINGS, LOCATION DATA, and DYNAMIC VISIBILITY drawers. This guide will not describe the Layout & Positioning or Dynamic Visibility properties as these are generic to each visible component. Here you can find separate guides on Layout & Positioning and Dynamic Visibility

MAP SETTINGS

• Access token - an input field for the map access token. This can be acquired from your account on the Mapbox website.

• Map style - a dropdown to select the style of the Map layers

  • Satellite Streets

  • Light

  • Dark

  • Streets

  • Outdoors

  • Navigation Day

  • Navigation Night

• Show zoom and pan controls - Checked by default, this option adds the zoom and pan controls to the map. Uncheck to hide these controls.

• Show terrain - Unchecked by default, use this option to add terrain to the map.

• Show 3D buildings - Checked by default, displays 3D buildings on the map.

• Allow cooperative gestures - Checked by default, use this option to enable or disable cooperative gestures. Read here to learn more about cooperative gestures.

MAP DEFAULTS

• Center map on...

  • Latitude - Input a location latitude (anywhere between -90 and 90). This property can be bound to the spreadsheet.

  • Longitude - Input a location longitude (anywhere between -180 and 180). This property can be bound to the spreadsheet.

  • Zoom level - an input to control the default map zoom level. This property can be bound to the spreadsheet.

  • Pitch - a slider to control the pitch and angle of the map view. The input value can be bound to the spreadsheet.

LOCATION DATA

• Marker Series - a series list to place markers on the map based on either an address, lat/long, or long/lat value in the spreadsheet.

• Name - Set the name of the series of location markers.

• Location Type - Choose the type of location data you have to plot on the map.

  • Address

  • Lat/Long

  • Long/Lat

• Locations - Bind to the range in the spreadsheet containing the location data.

  • Lat,long and Long,Lat data can be supplied as either 2 columns or a single column with a comma separating the values.

    
  • Address data should be supplied in a single column.

    
• Marker Color - Select the color for the markers by clicking the color swatch, to open the color picker, or entering a hex value. This property can be bound to the spreadsheet.

• Data Insertion - Configure data insertion to insert values when a marker is clicked. This is unchecked and disabled by default.

  • Data Insertion Type

    • Position

    • Series Name

    • Row

  • Source - Bind the source values for data insertion. This is only enabled for Row insertion types

  • Destination - Bind the destination cell(s) for the data.