Location-based address or latitude-longitude datasets are a vital element of business mapping. Map creators import location data to display relevant points of interest, define areas of interest, or add relevant resources to a business map.
Imported location datasets can be color-coded and symbolized in ways that add value to your map. These symbolized plotted points might define territory areas customer locations or depict the density of physical placements by subject.
But imported data means, sooner or later, the map creator must consider updating the data or reimporting the data because, just like the weather, data changes.
MapBusinessOnline has a map plotting feature that lets users import an address or latitude-longitude spreadsheet onto the map. The business mapping software provides a datasheet view in the Data Window. It offers a variety of symbology and color-coding options to maximize the map creator’s impact on her target map viewer.
But what of data updates? Imported data ages. Location records are added, deleted, and changed. How can you avoid a reimport process and automate the update process for imported location datasets?
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A few years back, MapBusinessOnline started supporting data updates by allowing users to select or create a Unique ID column in their imported data. The application would use that Unique ID to facilitate updating imported location data accurately. But the process required the map user to process the update. You had to click a button.
Automatic Updates
Our development team recently added several controls that enable full automation of location data updates. The user must store the data at its original location and assign a Unique ID column.
A map creator has two places to adjust settings to make this update process happen. The first control sets up automatic updates to occur or not. Both of these update controls are in Map and Data.
Updates Allowed
- In Map and Data, click the Map Options button at the top of the front menu.
- Choose the Map Updates tab.
- At the bottom of the Map Updates dialogue, check on the box labeled Update Datasets This means updates to imported data layers are allowed.
Updates Enabled
Next, return to the front page of Map and Data. Here we will address the specific process for updating imported data layers.
- Hover over the imported dataset layer and click the Edit Map Layer Properties
- On the dialogue page, navigate to the third-lowest section focused on Updates.
- Click the Options button:
- Use this button to assign a Unique ID. It could be a unique ID column you added or a unique ID column included with the data.
- If you already have a Unique ID column assigned, go to the next step.
- For general data updates, click the Quick Update. If you’ve already adjusted your Update Datasets button as described in the top section above, you’re all set for MapBusinessOnline to automatically update your location dataset.
Now, take the rest of the day off.
Automatic data updates are convenient, saving the user time. Automatic updates also assure enhanced accuracy as your imported data can be relied upon to be up-to-date.
Read more about imported data:
- Follow the location data import process for EV Charging Stations.
- Learn about editing imported datasets.
- Considering privacy issues when importing location data.
- The trickiest part about importing data. *
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