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Area Coloring

With the Area shading command in the Analysis menu, EasyMap offers the possibility to color the areas of the map depending on a data column.

Creating a New Analysis

The area shading analysis starts with the selection of the data input:

Select data input and connect the data to the map

First select the Table that contains the data to be displayed in the analysis.
In addition, you specify on which sheet and in which map the analysis is to be displayed.
Then check whether the column with the area number (e.g. postal code) from the table corresponds to the corresponding level (e.g. postal code areas - areas) of the base map. The area number is used to assign the individual data records to the corresponding area.

Set the Properties of the Area Shading

Applying the uniform area shading, all areas are displayed in the same color. The Color is freely selectable in the color selection field of the properties of the area shading analysis.

In the properties you can now also select from the Table of the database the Column you want to evaluate.

After selecting the data basis, you can determine the column you want to visualize in the properties from the previously selected table. Four display types are available: Uniform, Classified, Continuous and Default.

Classified Area shading

Classified area coloring offers you numerous setting options. In addition to the number of value classes, you can specify how the limit values of the value classes are to be determined.

View the settings in detail:

First select the column to be evaluated.

With a area-related analysis you can additionally determine aggregation of the data of the selected column. This specifies the rule how data are combined if several data are available for an area.
The Format option is only available for area-specific analyses. Normally, the formatting of the selected data column is also used for the analysis result; this is always the case for site-specific analyses. For certain aggregation procedures (for example, number of values), however, this formatting cannot be used meaningfully. You can define a new formatting here, which is used in legends for this analysis, for example.
Under Statistics you can display statistical information (e.g. number of data records, min., max.) for the selected column - click on the button in the field next to Statistics.

In the middle area, enter Classes, the Count for classes, and the method of automatic Classification or set here to User defined to edit your own classes. In addition to Analysis range, you can also specify an interval within which the values are to be taken into account. Values outside the interval always fall into the residual class "unclassified".
In the lower section you can then determine the details of the analysis (value class list). You can use various commands to edit the value classes and colors.
- The design characteristics and class boundaries can be edited by double-clicking in the relevant cell. For example, you can select the color individually by double-clicking on the color of the class.
- for further information on editing value classes, symbols, colors and sizes, see here.
- Note: By sorting according to the name of the class, you can force a certain order in the legend!

Continuous are shading

The Continuous area shading offers you the convenience of a continuous color gradient without specifying value classes. The continuous coloring of the areas is only available for number columns.

Preset Area shading

The Default option is useful if the colors for the areas in a data table are available as RGB values (hexadecimal, e.g. #00FF00). The data column with the HTML color coding should be present in the selected table and selected here.

Determine the details of the analysis

In Details you define other (non-data-dependent) properties of the analysis.

The following properties are available:

Visibility
General	Here you can control the visibility of objects and elements.
Scale range	Here you can set whether the selected object or plane should be visible at each scale. Or you can specify the scale or zoom level at which the object or layer is visible.
In reports	In Reports there is the possibility to change the environment only partially to zeigen. You can use this property to specify whether the layer is also visible outside the report area in this case.
Size adjustment	Specify here how the size of a symbol or diagram behaves when the map scale is changed. This can change e.g. after zoom within the map, after setting a clip map or within a report, because only a part of the map is displayed. More about Size adjustment at auto zoom.
Alternating visibility group	Set a group for mutual visibility here. If the element is to be made equally visible with other elements, you must use the same name for the visibility group.
Simultaneous visibility group	Set a group for simultaneous visibility here. If the element is to be made mutually visible with other elements, you must use the same name for the visibility group.
Common
Type of Shading	Here you can select whether the color of the areas full area or only as edge color should appear. With this option, loosened maps are possible, which allow not only the analysis of the surface coloration but also a further evaluation, without the map appearing overloaded and not really readable.
Width of the Colored Border	Here you can set the width for the edge coloring in cm .
Comment	Enter here a comment for the display of the workbook in EasyMap Xplorer. The comment is also displayed in EasyMap as a tooltip in the control window Contents.

Create tooltips for analysis

When crossing the colored areas on the map, you can display context-sensitive information about them.

Note: You can find out how to implement tooltips here.

The commands of the context menu

You can right-click on the analysis in the navigaton window Content to open its context menu. The context menu provides commands that can be performed on this analysis.

List of commands in the context menu

Transfer Selection to	Transfers the current selection geographically to another object. Details...
Visible	Shows whether the object is visible and allows switching the visibility.
Order	Here you can change the selected element in the character sequence. Another option is to drag and drop the selected element within the content view.
Input Data...	Displays the data settings for the selected analysis. You can use this command later to change the connection between the analysis and the data. Further information can be found here.
Show Results Table	Displays the results of the selected analysis in a table.
Ignore filter	Defines whether an Analysis filter should be considered or not. This setting only has an effect if Apply filter to analyses is activated in the table on which the analysis is based. In this case, Ignore filter can be used to exclude individual analyses from the filter application.
Restore defaults	Undoes all manual changes to this layer.
Clip Map	Here you can define a different clip map for the analysis.
Map XY	Here you will find various commands for the Map.
Copy	Copy the object (if necessary with all subobjects) to the clipboard to paste it elsewhere. The object can be inserted in other applications as a graphic, or inserted in EasyMap as a copy of this object using the Insert command.
Paste	Pastes the contents of the clipboard into this object as a child object.
Delete	Deletes the selected element. (See also: delete objects)
Rename	Changes the content view to an edit mode to give the object a new name. (This can also be achieved by clicking on an object that has already been marked.)
Properties...	Opens a properties dialog in which you can edit the Properties of the selected object. If several objects are selected, many properties can also be changed simultaneously for these objects.