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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories Maps
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2017

Deactivate tile borders in map charts and remove category limitation on axis

Hi,

I've recently learned from TIBCO service about the limitation of using tiled markers which is not yet well explained in the help (e.g. dividing all coordinates by 1000 suddenly allows using tiled markers in my case). It would be great if the category limitation would work on unique count of different categories on one axis rather than on unique count of integer values between min and max value of an axis. Or alternatively use the real screen resolution rather than 200pixels as a fixed number (please find the service feedback at the bottom of this entry).

Additionally when working with tiled markers for low resolutions in your grid the white tile borders can become really disturbing by making the whole visualization look "unmarked" and the color by information is not well transported. So for tiled markers it would be a very helpful option to deactivate the tile borders.

I will attach an example to illustrate both issues. It would be great if those could be considered for one of the next updates.

Thanks,
Mark

 

Tibco Service Feedback:

The map chart is not like a normal chart were the axis adapts to its content, instead every Integer makes up a unique position in the coordinate-system. This means that every integer between the biggest and the smallest value in a column will be represented by a tile on the chart.

Looking at X_mm column in the dxp:
The largest value: 76,3
The smallest value: -75,7
Total number of tiles on the X-axis: 152
Result if we use a 200px visualization (200/152): 1,32 pixels per tile. (Markers is visible)

If we use X_um instead:
The largest value: 76 300
The smallest value: -75 700
Total number of tiles on the X-axis: 152 000
Result if we use a 200px visualization (200px/152 000 tiles): 0,00 pixels per tile. (Markers is not visible, this causes the error message)

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