You’ve noticed a typo in the Muizenberg data in the Shark Spotter Beaches layer.
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Below you’ll learn how to edit your map data. You may want to do this if you notice a typo or want to add extra information to your info windows. You can easily make changes to your map data at any point in the map-making process. For this example, select the thumbnail in the bottom left for Light Landmass.Ĭlick anywhere on the map to collapse the base map menu. Select a thumbnail to change the base map style. Select the carat icon to open a menu of base map styles. In the map menu, go to the Base map layer. Tip: You can create and add your own icons to the map. You should now see those icons on your map: Under More icons, select the walking man icon. Hover your cursor over the text Temporary, and select the gray paint can icon that pops up. You should now see those icons on your map. Hover your cursor over the text Permanent, and select the gray paint can icon that pops up. Use the Group places by drop-down menu to select Style by data column: Type, then choose Categories. Here you’ll bucket the points into two categories, Permanent Shark Spotter beaches and Temporary Shark Spotter Beaches - information that is already associated with each location in the CSV - and use two different map icons.Ĭlick the Shark Spotter Beaches layer in the menu and select Individual styles. Next, customize the points in the Shark Spotter Beaches data layer. Now your blue pins should be shark fin placemarks on the map. Under More icons, select the shark fin icon. Select More icons to see several icon shapes you can choose. Selecting the paint can will pull up a menu of icon choices, including colors and shapes. You should see a paint can icon appear on the right. Hover your cursor over the text All items (69). Go to the Sightings map layer in the menu. Start by customizing the Sightings layer, changing the default blue pin to a shark fin icon. Next, you’ll learn how to style the points on your map. Select the text of the layer title, and change the name to Shark Spotter Beaches. You should now see both layers visible in your menu and plotted on your map. Select the Lat and Long columns for your location column, and select the Beach Name column to title your markers. Repeat steps 6 through 9 using the sharkspotter-beaches.csv from your desktop. For this example, change the layer name to Sightings: to. If you’d like to change the name of this layer in the menu, just select the text of the layer name (the default will be the file name). You should now see your data as a layer in the menu, and your points plotted on the map. For this example, select the Date column and hit Finish: Now pick the column you’d like to use to title your markers. Tip: If you don’t have latitude and longitude information, you can use addresses in your columns instead. You can hover over the question marks to see sample data from that column. For this example, select the Lat and _ Long columns_, and hit Continue. columns with latitude and longitude information). You may upload a table containing up to 2,000 rows (see supported data formats and limits here).Īfter uploading your data, you’ll be asked to select the column(s) with location information, so that your data will be correctly placed on the map (e.g. Tip: You can also import a XLSX file or a Google Sheet. This will be the first data layer we upload. Select the sharksightings.csv from your desktop. If a shark is seen along the beach, the spotter sounds a siren and raises a specific color-coded flag, upon which swimmers are requested to leave the water. This spotter is in radio contact with another spotter on the beach. A spotter is placed on the mountain with polarised sunglasses and binoculars. Shark Spotters are positioned at strategic points along the Cape Peninsula. This map shows the location of Shark Spotters along the False Bay coastline in South Africa, as well as all reported white shark sightings between September 8, 2012, and February 22, 2013. Now copy and paste the text below into the Description dialog box: In this case, we’ve supplied some text below for you to copy and paste into the Map title dialog box: In the welcome pop-up, select Create a new map:Ĭlick the text Untitled map to edit the map title and description.
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