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Kaleidocade’s mapping functions provide interactivity and customizability
Through Kaleidocade's mapping tools, users can quickly map indicators that are part of your system, at the geographic level and geographic areas of their choice. Kaleidocade's mapping tools are flexible, fast, and intuitive. Among many other things, users can bookmark a particular view of a map they created; save a map as an image or a PDF; customize maps; quickly switch to another indicator collection.
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Powerful Visualization
No matter how many indicators your Kaleidocade-powered system contains, indicators can be mapped quickly and easily.
Categories, Geography, and Indicators
Users can pick indicators from categories that are defined by administrators to create "indicator collections" for use for mapping and analyzes. The collections can be at any geography supported by the data in your system: zip codes, municipalities, boroughs and townships, school districts, states, counties, and census tracts, etc.
Thousands of Indicators at Your Fingertips
The indicators in your system can be a mix of some that your organization has assembled along with some from different sources such as the US Census Bureau, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, the National Center for Charitable Statistics, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to name a few.
Use Sets of Indicators You Previously Created
When selecting indicators for a new project, users can select from a collection used previously.
Overview Map
The map view includes an inset reference map in the lower right hand corner that shows the location of the main map area in a larger context. The inset can also be used to pan the main map. An arrow in the upper left of the reference map hides it in case it is in the way. Users can bookmark any map view of their choice to easily return to a particular zoom and pan later.
Enhanced Color Ramps
The indicator color can be selected in a drop-down menu containing a set of color ramps. The thematic map color ranges can be set on an application-by-application basis to range between any two colors to best match map attributes and the application’s color scheme.
Map Breaks
Map breaks can be displayed using 4 different types of classes: quantile, equal interval, standard deviation or you can make your own custom class.
Map Layers
To customize the look of the map, users are able to control what layers are visible with a simple click of a checkbox.
Bookmarks
Any specific map view can be bookmarked and named. Users can then easily return to that zoom level by choosing the bookmark from the menu.
Search an Address
The search function enables a user to pinpoint any location on the map.
Export Map
Maps can be printed, saved as images to include in reports or on your website, or can be exported as PDF files to share with others.
