MapViewer is an affordable and mapping and spatial analysis tool that allows you to easily produce publication-quality thematic maps. No data set is too complex to make an eye-catching plot. MapViewer helps you discover data trends and patterns in your data to help you make the right decision every time!

Create one of more than 16 unique and fully-customizable map types. Color your boundaries based on a data variable with the choropleth (hatch) map and territory map types. Create unique bar charts, pie charts, or line/scatter plots in each boundary with the bar map, pie map, and multi-graph map types. Grid your data and create gradient maps, contour maps, and vector maps from the grid. Re-size your map areas based on a data value with the three cartogram map types (contiguous, non-contiguous, and dorling) and the prism map type. Use the density map, symbol map, flow map, and line graph map types to display points, line graphs, or arrows on your map based on your data value. Add base maps and pin maps to your plot to display boundaries and point locations on your thematic maps.

MapViewer can import maps in many different formats to display geographic information. Base maps display boundary objects that do not have thematic data associated with them. They are created from any number of vector or image file formats, such as SHP, DXF, GeoTIFF, and PDF. In addition to loading existing files as base maps, you can also download georeferenced imagery automatically from countless free online Web Map Service (WMS) servers through MapViewer’s built-in WMS browser. Connect to the online data source, pick the layer of interest you want to download, and then watch as MapViewer downloads the image and seamlessly overlays it on your plot.

Use base maps as the foundation for building thematic map layers, or create stand-alone base maps independent of other maps on the page. Load any number of base maps on a page. Base maps can be used in conjunction with other maps to display features such as roads, streams, city locations, political/administrative boundaries, and other boundary information.

Add base maps from vector boundary files to increase the impact of your map. Here South Carolina
roads are plotted, with interstates colored orange and highways colored blue.

Base Map Features

• Create any number of base maps on a single page.
• Add a georeferenced base map from an online WMS server.
• Edit the line, fill, text and symbol properties for individual objects in a base map.
• Globally edit the line, fill, text and symbol properties for all objects in a base map.
• Link a data file to your boundaries and then display data labels from any column(s) in the data file.
• Import georeferenced image files in real world coordinates.
• Get information about the number of objects in a base map.
• View the length and number of vertices of polylines in a base map.
• View the area, perimeter, and number of vertices of polygons in a base map.
• Display linked text labels for the PID or SID of the objects.
• Post linked text for polylines that follow the line.
• Copy, paste, reshape, move and delete individual objects in a base map.
• Add new objects to a base map.
• View the x,y coordinates of each vertex in a polyline or polygon in the Coordinates Manager.
• View the boundary file and (if applicable) the linked data file for a base map.
• Adjust the layer opacity.
• Import, edit, export and label map features with attributes.

Make your map more visually appealing by adding to your plot a raster image from one of
many WMS servers in the Download Online Maps dialog.

Display all your information! Attributes are imported with your base map files, or can be 
created. All objects in a base map layer can be labeled with attributes. The polygons in this map are
labeled with the PID.

Pin maps show points at specific XY locations on a map. The locations can represent sample locations, well locations, or original data point locations, and they can be defined by a latitude/longitude coordinate pair, a U.S. city and state pair, or a 5-digit U.S. ZIP code. Alternatively, you can create a custom location file to use for locating your points based on some other parameter. Points can have uniform symbols, symbols that are classed by numeric data values, symbols that are classed by text, or symbols that are sized proportionally based on a min and max symbol size and a set of numeric data values. Pin maps are the only map type that do not need to be combined with a boundary file.

Use pin maps to display the locations of your XY data.

Pin Map Features

• Create any number of pin maps on a single page.
• Use proportional or uniform size symbols, or bin symbols by text or data classes.
• Full control of symbol style and color.
• Specify custom symbols from the worksheet.
• Locate symbols by x,y coordinates, US City and State, US 5-Digit ZIP Code, or a custom location file.
• Add labels from a data column and adjust the font properties of the labels.
• Drag individual labels to place them exactly where you want them.
• Post different symbols for specified ranges of data values.
• Use the Condition Filter to plot only the point that meet your criteria.
• Create a legend to display the symbols and data ranges.
• Determine the frequency of the symbols that are displayed.
• Rotate the symbols by values in an angle column or a user-defined rotation for all symbols.
• Get information about the min, max, range, sum, mean, and st dev of the data.
• Use one of the built-in presets as the color map for lines and fills.
• Save and load custom color map files for the exact desired display.
• Choose to overlay the map with the plot.
• Scale the map to the page.
• Save and load classes.
• Adjust the layer opacity.

Display your data in an easy-to-interpret way that is visually stunning! Choropleth maps (called hatch maps in MapViewer) use colors and fill patterns to represent data ranges or classes of data for each area on a map. This map type is useful for displaying many types of data sets, like population, crime rates, rainfall, and more.

Choropleth maps can be used to effectively display a wide variety of data types, like this 
map of population of municipalities and districts of Great Britain.

Choropleth Map Features

• Create any number of choropleth maps on a single page.
• Display automatic data classes based on equal intervals, equal numbers, standard deviation, or Jenks’ natural breaks, or set your own user-defined classes.
• Create classes based on numeric or text data columns.
• Save and load hatch map class files that contain all the class information, so you can easily and quickly create choropleth maps with consistent properties.
• Fill the classes with gradient or manually-selected individual colors.
• Create a class for boundaries with no data.
• Save fill color class information to the worksheet.
• Add customizable data labels from any data column(s).
• Exercise full control over data label format, font, and placement.
• Add leader lines for all labels or just for labels that have been manually moved.
• Get information about the min, max, range, sum, mean, and st dev of the data.
• Create a class for all regions that contain data but fall outside of the range of the rest of your classes.
• Give each class a custom name that can be displayed in the legend.
• Add a customizable legend.
• Use one of the built-in presets as the color map.
• Save and load custom color map files for the exact desired display.
• Adjust the layer opacity.