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Map Charts with Counties
Okay, so I'm making a project to show data for each county in Kentucky. My table is formatted with Column A having the heading "County" and Column B having the heading "Acres Used for Farm Land"--the data. However, when I go to the recommended charts, It only gives me the option to use a United States map instead of a Kentucky state map. To make matters worse, it is showing two of the counties in different states (one in Arkansas and another in Indiana). I went through and added ", Kentucky" to the end of all the counties; however, this did not fix the problem. Any answers or possible troubleshooting I could do? Pictures are attached. Thanks
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I am having the same issue with Counties in Florida, where some show in other states even though the series has a field with Florida listed and the county selection is via a drop box. And some counties don't even generate a map even though they are spelled correctly, like St. Johns and St. Lucie Counties.
So if I select Hamilton County from the drop down list and in the very next cell it says FL or Florida, the map chart still shows Hamilton county Iowa and not Hamilton County Florida.
Hamilton, St Lucie, and St johns plot fine for me. Lake County is one I cannot plot.
williambryantFDOT, this is how we have them set in our excel file:
County Alachua County, Florida Baker County, Florida Bay County, Florida Bradford County, Florida Brevard County, Florida Broward County, Florida Calhoun County, Florida Charlotte County, Florida Citrus County, Florida Clay County, Florida Collier County, Florida Columbia County, Florida Miami-Dade County, Florida DeSoto County, Florida Dixie County, Florida Duval County, Florida Escambia County, Florida Flagler County, Florida Franklin County, Florida Gadsden County, Florida Gilchrist County, Florida Glades County, Florida Gulf County, Florida Hamilton County, Florida Hardee County, Florida Hendry County, Florida Hernando County, Florida Highlands County, Florida Hillsborough County, Florida Holmes County, Florida Indian River County, Florida Jackson County, Florida Jefferson County, Florida Lafayette County, Florida Lake County, Florida Lee County, Florida Leon County, Florida Levy County, Florida Liberty County, Florida Madison County, Florida Manatee County, Florida Marion County, Florida Martin County, Florida Monroe County, Florida Nassau County, Florida Okaloosa County, Florida Okeechobee County, Florida Orange County, Florida Osceola County, Florida Palm Beach County, Florida Pasco County, Florida Pinellas County, Florida Polk County, Florida Putnam County, Florida St. Johns County, Florida St. Lucie County, Florida Santa Rosa County, Florida Sarasota County, Florida Seminole County, Florida Sumter County, Florida Suwannee County, Florida Taylor County, Florida Union County, Florida Volusia County, Florida Wakulla County, Florida Walton County, Florida Washington County, Florida
Ive been having the same issue for counties in PA. Ive tried 100 different ways. Ive made county maps for PA using excel in the past, but it no longer works.
Hello,
if you add a column for State and enter Kentucky in all cells, then the map can be configured to show Kentucky only and the counties will be plotted correctly.
Thank You so much!! Life Saver. I just have one more question. I want to change the legend for the map chart. It is auto set for the faded shades as the numbers fall; however, I would like to seperate the data into seperate categories. For example, I want 0-60,000 to be one color, 60,001-120,000 to be another, and so on. Is there a way to do this?
You can't have distinct colors for a range of numbers, but you can define up to three colors in a gradient.
In the Format Data Series panel click on Series Color and select Diverging (3-color). You can change the colors and you can change the minimum, midpoint and maximum to exact numbers. Set Minimum to 0, midpoint to 60000 and maximum to 120000.
If you don't like the gradients, then you need to add a column to your data table and use formulas to translate 0 - 60,000 to 1, 60,001 - 120,000 to 2, 120,001 to whatever to 3, etc. Then use the column with the values 1, 2, 3 to plot the chart and set the colors for these numbers as described above.
In the following screenshot I have added a formula to the data table to generate numbers from 1 to 3 for the number ranges in column C, using
=IFS([@number]<33,1,[@number]<66,2,TRUE,3)
Then I changed the chart series definition to plot the numbers from column D instead of C and gave each of the three number a distinct color.
If you want more than three distinct colors, use the "lowest value", "middle value", and "highest value" instead of numbers and set your thresholds. With "x" distinct number of values in column D, there will be "x" distinct colors in the map, but they will be a mix of the "start" and the "end" color. You won't be able to define "x" exact hues.
