4 Replies Latest reply on Jan 8, 2013 11:54 AM by Jason Caulk

Plotting US and Canadian locations in a symbol map at the same time?

Jason Caulk Jan 8, 2013 11:31 AM

All,

I have not yet found a way to plot outlet locations for USA and Canada on the same symbol map. Is there a trick to using Zip Code and Postal Code that I just haven't found yet? I've searched the forum content and can't find anything on the subject of mapping across country boarders at the same time.

I've attached a sample workbook with a just a few records to prove out the concept. --- there should be 2 Canadian locations as well....

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Shawn Wallwork Jan 8, 2013 11:26 AM (in response to Jason Caulk)

Jason, thanks for posting a sample workbook, but you'll need to post a packaged workbook (twbx), the one you posted doesn't have any data in it. Meantime do you have a Country field included in your data and did you put this on the level of detail shelf?

--Shawn
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Jason Caulk Jan 8, 2013 11:33 AM (in response to Shawn Wallwork)

Shawn,
Thanks for the note on the workbook. I grabbed the wrong file. Please see the attached twbx.

Re data questions: I do have a country field in the extract, and I did try putting it in the "level of detail" shelf. Still no go...

Jason
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Shawn Wallwork Jan 8, 2013 11:51 AM (in response to Jason Caulk)
Jason, so Tableau only recognizes 3-digit zipcodes in Canada. I trimmed them down and it now displays correctly. See Attached.

--Shawn

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Jason Caulk Jan 8, 2013 11:54 AM (in response to Shawn Wallwork)

Bingo... I didn't realize it only picked up the first 3 digits.

Glad it was a simple solution.
Thanks again!
Jason
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