How to enable geocoding tables for Spotfire map charts.

How to enable geocoding tables for Spotfire map charts.

Product: TIBCO Spotfire (Analyst / Professional)

Version: 6.0 and higher

OS: All supported Operating Systems

When creating a map chart in Spotfire, customers may want to take advantage of "geocoding", the ability to locate map chart markers based on address information.

Spotfire geocoding tables must be installed in the Spotfire Library from the Spotfire Server. This is outlined in section 5.7 of the Spotfire Server Installation Manual.

5.7 Enable Geocoding Tables for Map Chart

To display data on a map, the data needs to be geocoded. Geocoding in Spotfire is the process of using some type of identifiers in a data table and matching those to similar identifiers in another set of data tables (a geocoding hierarchy) which contains latitude/longitude coordinates or geographic features. These coordinates or features are then used for correctly positioning the data in a map context.

Spotfire 7.0 features pre-packaged geocoding hierarchies, so-called geocoding tables. To make the geocoding tables available to users, locate the geoanalytics folder in the Spotfire Server installation kit. Copy the file geoanalytics.part0.zip to the configured library Import/Export folder. See “Configuring a Specific Directory for Library Import and Export” on page 109. When this file is in place, a Spotfire Administrator or Library Administrator can import these files to the Library.

To import the geocoding tables into the Library, do the following.

1). Start Spotfire and log in as a Spotfire Admin.

2). Select Tools > Library Administration.

3). Navigate to the Library folder where you want to import the demo files. For instance, you can create a folder called GeoAnalytics.

4). Select Import.

5). Click Browse and select the file geoanalytics.part0.zip.

6). Click OK.

7). Click OK.

Click Close when the dialog states Import Done.