Download Maldives Administrative Boundary GIS Data – Provinces, Atolls and more

IGISMAP introduces the Maldives’ GIS data collection, encompassing administrative boundaries such as national boundaries and atolls, available for download in various formats including ESRI Shapefile, KML, GeoJSON, and CSV, providing GIS enthusiasts with the opportunity to explore and analyze geographic and administrative features for mapping projects.

Exciting news for GIS enthusiasts! IGISMAP has just released GIS data collections for over 100 new countries. You can now access the shapefiles of all essential administrative and other geographical features. The provided links allow you to download the Maldives Administrative Boundary GIS Data in ESRI Shapefile, KML, GeoJSON, and CSV formats.

Note:

  • All data available are in GCS datum EPSG:4326 WGS84 CRS (Coordinate Reference System).
  • You need to login for downloading the shapefile.

Here is the video tutorial to download data:

Download Shapefile Data of Maldives

Maldives, officially known as the Republic of Maldives, is a picturesque island nation situated in the Indian Ocean. Comprising a total of 26 atolls, which are formed by more than 1,000 coral islands, Maldives is renowned for its breathtaking beauty, pristine beaches, and crystal-clear turquoise waters.

Geographically, Maldives is located southwest of Sri Lanka and India, spanning an area of approximately 298 square kilometers (115 square miles). The country stretches over 820 kilometers (510 miles) from north to south and 120 kilometers (75 miles) from east to west. The nearest landmass is the Indian Lakshadweep Islands.

Maldives National Boundary
Maldives National Boundary

After logging in with a verified email ID, select the desired country. Next, choose the specific layer and format for the GIS data. Before downloading the Maldives GIS data, you have the option to check the data table for further details. Finally, click on the download button to initiate the download.

Download Maldives National Boundary Shapefile

Download Maldives Atolls Shapefile Data

The Maldives, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean, is an archipelago consisting of 26 atolls, which are further divided into 20 administrative atolls. These atolls serve as the country’s primary administrative divisions. Each atoll comprises numerous coral islands, with some atolls boasting more than 200 individual islets. The capital city, Malé, located in the Kaafu Atoll, is not only the political and economic hub of the Maldives but also one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Despite facing challenges from climate change and rising sea levels, the Maldives’ administrative atolls remain a symbol of natural beauty and cultural richness, attracting tourists from around the globe.

Maldives Atolls boundaries
Maldives Atolls boundaries

Download Maldives Atoll Shapefile

This shapefile covers following administrative atolls of maldives listed below:

  1. Alifu Alifu Atoll (North Ari Atoll)
  2. Alifu Dhaalu Atoll (South Ari Atoll)
  3. Baa Atoll
  4. Dhaalu Atoll
  5. Faafu Atoll
  6. Gaafu Alifu Atoll (North Huvadhoo Atoll)
  7. Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll (South Huvadhoo Atoll)
  8. Gnaviyani Atoll (Fuvahmulah)
  9. Haa Alifu Atoll (Thiladhunmathi Uthuruburi)
  10. Haa Dhaalu Atoll (Thiladhunmathi Dhekunuburi)
  11. Kaafu Atoll (Male Atoll)
  12. Laamu Atoll
  13. Lhaviyani Atoll
  14. Meemu Atoll
  15. Noonu Atoll
  16. Raa Atoll
  17. Seenu Atoll (Addu Atoll)
  18. Shaviyani Atoll
  19. Thaa Atoll
  20. Vaavu Atoll

Download  Maldives North Male Atoll Shapefile Data

North Malé Atoll is one of the most popular and frequently visited atolls in the Maldives. Located in the northern part of the archipelago, it is situated close to the capital city of Malé, making it easily accessible for tourists.

The capital city of the Maldives is Malé, and it is not specifically located within the North Malé Atoll. However, Malé is situated in close proximity to the atoll and serves as the central hub for transportation, administration, and commerce in the country. It is located on the southern edge of the North Malé Atoll, which makes it easily accessible from the various resorts and islands within the atoll.

Hulhumalé is a reclaimed island located in the Maldives, situated in the southern part of the North Malé Atoll. It is an artificial island developed as a response to the growing population and urbanization pressures faced by the capital city of Malé. Hulhumalé serves as an extension of the greater Malé area and has become a key residential, commercial, and recreational hub.

Maldives North Male Atoll Boundary
Maldives North Male Atoll Boundary

Download Maldives North Male Atoll Shapefile

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Upload GIS data and label the features – IGISMap Tool

Labeling is the art of arranging text on a map in relation to map symbols, which together represent features and attributes in the real world. It specifically refers to the process of automatically generating and setting descriptive text for features in a map. So here in this article, steps are provided on how to upload gis data and label the features.

GIS helps users to understand patterns, relationships, and geographic context. Its benefit includes improved communication and efficiency, as well as improved management and decision-making. GIS combines datasets with maps, and integrated regional datasets with any type of descriptive information or data. It provides mapping and assessment prerequisites for technology and almost every industry.

IGISMap is a web platform providing multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. Label Feature tool from IGISMap is designed to label the region’s GIS data. In this IGISMap tool, we can easily plot the text data. Users can format text data according to presentation requirements. The color of the text, its size, everything can be adjusted.

In IGISMap there is using the Label Feature tool which is a powerful GIS tool to plot text data of the point GIS data. Let’s see the process of labeling the text data of a region as shown below.

Labeling of German universities
Labeling of German universities

If you have data then upload using the following steps if not download from gis data. For Adding data from IGISMAP check this – Add GIS data and label features in map.

How to upload GIS data and label the features

In this article, we will discuss the labeling of points GIS data. For this, we will upload the GIS data by using the Upload Vector File tool of IGISMap. Here we describe labeling the University locations in Germany using the Label Feature tool of IGISMap.

to assess the Upload Vector File tool directly click-https://map.igismap.com/upload-vector-files.

Upload the point GIS data

After login in to the IGISMap on the dashboard, there are many tools. From them, we have to click on the Upload Vector File tool.

Dashboard
Dashboard

That will open the Upload Vector File tool. First step is Select Layer.


Upload Vector File tool

Upload Vector File tool

After opening the Upload Vector File tool, we can upload the vector file of various file formats that we have e.g. GML, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GPX, GPS, GPKG, ODS, MAPINFO, SOLITE, ESRI SHAPEFILE DXF MID, MIF, PDF. In the Select Layer section we can Drag &Drop the file or we can Browse the file. For this article, we Browse the file by clicking Browse and selecting the file (german _universities shapefile) from the desktop and then Upload it.

Upload Vector File-Upload the shapefile
Upload the shapefile

After uploading the data point layer is visible on the screen of IGISMap.

Successfully plotted the point data
Successfully plotted the point data

Opening Label Feature tool

After uploading the point GIS data from Upload Vector File, we can label the German university’s point GIS data using the Label Feature tool. For accessing the tool, click the Tools button at the upper left side of the screen to open the map tools popup. Then select the Label Feature tool listed under the Style Your Data section.

Label Feature from Tools
Label Feature from Tools

We can also open the Label Feature tool by going to the More option of the polygon GIS data and choosing the Label Feature tool.

Label Feature from More section
Label Feature from More section

Labeling the point GIS data

Then the tool appears on the screen of IGISMap.

Label Feature tool
Label Feature tool

Then the tool appears and we have to select the layer from the Select Layer section which is the ‘German_universities’ data that is published in this map and then we have to click the Next option.

Label Feature-Select the point GIS layer
Select the point GIS layer

After clicking Next, in the Select Field section, Here we have to select the appropriate field in the Feature Name section from the drop-down box as required.

Label Feature-Choose the Feature Name
Choose the Feature Name

We can change the size of text which will be plotted on the map by Font Size and select the appropriate color from the drop-down box as required by the Color section. Then we have to click OK.

Label Feature-Select the Color and Font Size
Select the Color

After selecting the features name and changing the color and size of the features we have to click on Save Label for labeling the German Universities point GIS data.

Label Feature-Save the Label of point GIS data
Save the Label of point GIS data

Following all steps properly we get the desired output of universities point GIS data on the screen of IGISMap.

Successfully added Label style of German universities point data
Successfully added Label style of German university’s point data

In the above steps, you learn how to upload gis data and label the features of the map. If you want to share, export, or embed the map on your website.

Try our online polygon merge feature in one layer.

Merge polygons features online using IGISMap

In GIS data, a geographic area is represented in a polygon shape. Geospatial features such as administrative boundaries are digitized in the polygon vector model. In some cases, we need to merge the polygon features based on attribute values or location. After merging, input polygons will merge into a single polygon feature assigned with a single row to store attribute values. When the adjacent polygons with common border lines are merged, they combine to form a single polygon. Through merge functionality, we can create any primary-level administrative boundaries like national boundaries from the secondary level divisions like state or district level boundaries. So here in this article, we are providing steps to merge polygons features online in a single layer.

Merging is a common geoprocessing used in GIS projects for two important cases. One is to merge multiple GIS features into single GIS feature within a GIS data itself. Another application is to merge multiple GIS data into single GIS data. In both cases, geometry entity of the input GIS feature or GIS data should be same ie., either point, polyline or polygon.

IGISMap provides Merge Polygons tool to merge multiple polygon features of a polygon GIS data into single polygon feature. IGISMap is a GIS-based web platform, that provides multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. The peculiarity of IGISMAP in the GIS Industry is its user interface which helps the user to perform effortless geospatial operations. Merge Polygons tool is very easy to use and you can merge the required polgons in just two steps.

In this article we will create the national boundary of USA by merging the polygons of state boundaries. Without further due, lets dive into Merge Polygons tool.

Click https://map.igismap.com/merge-polygon to open Merge Polygons tool.

Add your data

After opening Merge Polygons tool, first step is to add or upload polygon GIS data. Here we will choose Upload Data option to upload the data from your personal computer. Then, click on the Browse button to open the browsing box, where you will choose the file from your pc. In this article, we will be uploading a polygon GIS data of USA state level boundaries.

Upload Data
Upload Data

After opening the file, click the Upload button to start the upload process.

Uploading GIS data
Uploading GIS data

Check the article Add / Upload polygon GIS data and merge required polygon features to understand how to use IGISMap GIS data in Merge Polygons tool.

Select polygons using Lasso Tool

When uploading is complete, polygon GIS data of USA state level boundaries will be published in the map. This data will be selected as the input data for carying out the merge operation.

Select Lasso Tool
Select Lasso Tool

You can access this same data from IGISMap GIS Data collection through Add GIS Data option provided in the Data Selection section.

Click https://map.igismap.com/add-gis to access Add GIS Data tool directly

Click below to download polygon GIS data of USA state level boundaries

Download USA State Level Boundaries Shapefile

Next step is to select the required polygon features from the input polygon data. IGISMap provides two options to select the polygons. They are – Lasso Tool and Select Manually. Lasso Tool option is suitable to selecte large number of polygon features, hence we will select Lasso Tool tab.

Lasso Tool will open the list of modes to draw a polygon over the required polygon features. These are Draw Polygon With Free Hand, Draw Circle, Draw Rectangle, and Draw Polygon. Select Draw Polygon and draw a polygon intersecting all the polygons of the states.

Draw Polygon using Lasso Tool
Draw Polygon using the Lasso Tool

Polygon features of the input polygon GIS data that intersected by the lasso polygon will be selected for merging. Then click Submit to start merging.

Polygons selected using Lasso tool
Polygons selected using Lasso tool

Output polygon

After submitting, merged polygon GIS data of USA national ouline boundary is published in the map, as shown below

Merged Layer
Merged Layer

In the above article we uploaded polygon GIS data and merge polygons features online. But if you have point data you can also convert it into polygon by point to polygon conversion feature of IGISMap Tool. This is good if you have point data. If you don’t have data you can Create Point Data using our tool.

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Add / Upload polygon GIS data and merge required polygon features

For a GIS project, accessing the required data is the first step that determines the further workflow of the project. Online sources either provides the data or provide tools to work with data. There are very few web tools that provides important data and services to work with the data in a single platform. Yes, that is rightIGISMap is one of that kind, where you can find most demanding GIS data in vector formats with a number of tools to carry out analysis and other operations over the GIS data. In the article below we will how to add/upload data and merge polygons. In addition, to merge the feature you can add GIS Data i.e shapefile, kml, kmz, geojson etc.

GIS Data in IGISMap contains administrative boundaries such as country, states, districts, roads, railway lines, and other geographical features such as roads, farmlands, waterbody, etc. IGISMap gis data tool provides you data for 30+ countries, and 51 US states. Also, a few spatial data on a global level are also provided. These data can be directly accessed using Add GIS Data tool from the dashboard or from the map tools. Add GIS Data is also made available in certain IGISMap tools to help users access GIS data directly within the tool itself.

In Merge Polygons tool, Add GIS Data option is provided to access polygon GIS data of various administrative level boundaries of each country. Users can add any polygon data from IGISMap collection and merge the required polygon features. In this article we are going to see how this is done.

Click https://map.igismap.com/merge-polygon to open the Merge Polygons tool or click Merge Polygons tab from the dashboard.

Add/Upload GIS Data

There are multiple options in Merge Polygons tool to add the input data. In this article, we will select Add GIS Data option to add the required data from IGISMap data collection. For demonstration, we will use the GIS data of local government area boundaries of South Australia. Thus we will select Australia from the Select Country list.

Add/Upload data and merge polygons
Add GIS Data – Select Country

After selecting the country, list of GIS data associated with Australia will open.

Add/Upload data and merge polygons
Add GIS Data – Select Layer

Scroll down or search for local government area in the search bar to filter the list to the required data. Select administrative local government area boundaries data from the list and click Add Layer icon.

Local Government Area Boundaries of Australia
Local Government Area Boundaries of Australia

Add Layer will preview the selected layer in the map and the options to crop the layer will be available in the tool. Since we only want the LGA boundaries of South Australia. Thus click the Crop Layer button and start drawing a polygon completely enclosing the LGA polygon features of South Australia and click Add Layer button.

Crop Layer
Crop Layer

Add Layer button will publish the cropped LGA boundaries of South Australia on the map and the Select Polygon section of the Merge Polygons tool will open.

Data Published From Add GIS Data
Data Published From Add GIS Data

Check this article Merge polygons features online using IGISMap to understand how to upload data and merge polygons in Merge Polygons tool.

If you have Point data then use our feature points to polygon converter. You can directly upload the point GIS data or convert addresses from spreadsheets to points.

Merging Polygons

There are two options to select the required polygon features – Lasso Tool and Select Manually. We will use Select Manually option. After selecting Select Manually, click Select Multiple Polygon button. Now select the polygon features of Roxby Downs, Coober Pady, and Unincorporated SA boundaries, which we want to merge the polygons together. After selecting the polygons, click on the Submit button to start the process of merging the selected polygon features.

Select Polygon - Select Manually
Select Polygon – Select Manually

In a few seconds, a new layer of the input GIS data of LGA boundaries gets published. In this layer, the selected polygon features are merged into a single polygon as shown below.

Add/Upload data and merge polygons
Polygons Merged and Published

Check the article Share your Map to know how to share your map with others using Share Map feature.

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Convert addresses from spreadsheet to points on Map in two steps

Consider a customer service manager working for a supermarket company wants to connect with some of their best customers for giving winning prizes and to promote their business. The manager has a list of contacts along with their address which is located all over America. In order to deliver the winning prizes to their doorstep, he has to find the best route which takes a minimum number of days to receive it. Hence he has to give the delivery partner the best route which is easier and less time-consuming.

In such cases, Geocoding helps to make the process easier. Geocoding is the process of converting one or more valid address with location details into GIS points.Geocoder tool of IGISMap can be used for converting address details to point GIS data in a few steps. You only need to upload the spreadsheet file with address columns and assign the address columns to start plotting. Option to review the plotting and edit the points are also available in this tool.

IGISMap is a GIS-based web platform, that provides multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. The peculiarity of IGISMap in the GIS Industry is its UI/UX, which helps the user to perform effortless geospatial operations. IGISMap allows users to edit the data table of vector data by editing the name of the columns, deleting the columns, and adding new columns. The Geocoder tool on the IGISMap increases efficiency by enabling different companies to better coordinate their sales in both domestic and foreign marketing activities.

Open Geocoder tool using the following link https://map.igismap.com/geocoder

Upload spreadsheet file

For uploading the input file, click on the Browse option, select the excel/CSV file from your system that you want to visualize on IGISMap, and click on the Upload option.

Geocoder - Upload Excel/CSV file
Upload Excel/CSV file

Match the Columns

After successfully uploading the file, the next step is to assign the address columns in your file to be used for geocoding. There are 2 options to match the columns – Full Address and Other. Full Address option is used for files with address information provided in a single column. In our case, we have address distributed in several columns, thus we will choose Other option. Click Other option and select the right address columns from you file at the right address types such as address, city, zip, state. Then select the country and click Submit button to geocode the address.

Geocoder - Match The Columns
Match The Columns

Review the geocoded locations

A GIS layer gets published after submitting, with point locations based on the address information from the input spreadsheet file. Result section also opens with datatable and Relevance_score column.

Geocoder Result
Geocoder Result

Relevance_score is a value ranging between 0 to 10 provided for every row depicting the accuracy of the plotted locations after the geocoding each address, where 10 being the highest accuracy. User can check the relevance score for each row and edit the point location if needed. Rows of the point features will be highlighted in red color if the relevance score is below 8. This is to notify the user to confirm the location plotted.

Result - Relevance Score
Relevance Score

How to edit location by checking relevance score

The user can delete any feature by using the Delete Feature button present on the Relevance_score table. Click Edit Attribute button of any required feature to start editing the attribute values of that feature and then click Save icon.

The user can edit the location of any point feature by using the Edit Location button. After clicking the Edit Location button in the row of any point feature, a pop-up menu with the options to edit the location.

Edit Location
Edit Location
  1. Search Address – Enter an appropriate address to replace the pin to that location
  2. lat-lng – Enter latitude/longitude values to replace the pin to that coordinate
  3. Current Location – To replace the pin to your current location
  4. Add Point – Manually plot a point on the base map

Now click Submit button to save the changes in the point GIS data

User can further edit the style of the points or share the map publicly or privately

How to style your polygon GIS data categorically

GIS helps users to understand patterns, relationships and geographic context. It benefit includes improved communication and efficiency, as well as improved management and decision-making. GIS combines datasets with maps, integrated regional datasets with any type of descriptive information or data. It provides mapping and assessment prerequisites for technology and almost every industry.

Visualization and intepretaion of data is what makes GIS a beautiful and interesting fields in data analytics. Science of visualization is the core essence in the art of cartography and mapping. Any type of geospatial features presented in the map with proper color combination, accurate size and location helps in better image interpretation. Quantity and category based representation of spatial features are the common visualization styles used in GIS.

IGISMap Styling Tools

IGISMap is a web platform providing multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. The peculiarity of IGISMap in the GIS Industry is its UI/UX that helps the user to perform effortless geospatial operations. IGISMap provides the following styling tools:

Among the styling options listed above – Basic, Category and Quantity styling options are used to style polygon and points, whereas Bubble Style and Icon Style are used to symboloze point GIS data. Basic Style will give any single color for the while GIS layer. Quantity Style is used to visualize the GIS data quantitatively. And Category Style will style your GIS map with separate colors assigned to each category of features

In this article we will talk about Category Style tool of IGISMap and how it can be used to categorically visualize your polygon GIS data like the following.

USA County Boundaries Data Categorized Based On States
USA County Boundaries Data Categorized Based On States

Add your GIS data

For the demonstration, let’s add county boundary polygon data of USA from IGISMap GIS data collection. For this let’s use Add GIS Data tool of IGISMap.

Click https://map.igismap.com/add-gis to open Upload Vector File tool.

After opening the Add GIS Data tool, in the Select Country section we will select United States of America. Then Search Layer section opens with the list of GIS data of USA, where we need to select ‘administrative county boundaries‘.

Add GIS Data
Add GIS Data

Before adding this data, lets check the data table of this data and verify the attribute field which we need to categorize this data. Switch the view from Map to Datatable and review the attribute fields. Here we are going to categorize the polygon features of county boundaries based on the state which it belongs to.

As you can see below, we have the attribute field for counties and the attribute field with states it belongs to.

Add GIS Data - Datatable
Datatable in Add GIS Data

Since we have confirmed the data, lets continue downloading. First click the download icon beside the data name and then click the Add Layer button in the next section that opens.

Add GIS Data - Add Layer
Add Layer

Now the layer is published in the map with the name ‘united_states_administrative_county_boundaries

Data published
Data published from Add GIS Data

Click here – Download USA County Boundaries GIS Data

Open IGISMap Category Style tool

After adding the input GIS data from Add GIS Data, we can style the counties categorically using Category Style tool. For accessing the tool, click Tools button at the upper left side of screen to open the map tools popup. Then select Category Style tool listed under Style Your Data section.

Map Tools
Map Tools

We can also open the Category Style tool by going to the More option of input point data and choose the Category Style from the Edit Style option.

More options - Category Style
More options -Edit Style – Category Style

Styling GIS data categorically

Then the tool is appeared on the screen of IGISMap.

Category Style
Category Style

Then the tool appears and we have to select the layer from Select Layer section which is the ‘united_states_administrative_county_boundaries‘ data that is published in this map and then we have to click Next option.

Category Style - Select Layer
Select Layer

After clicking Next, in the Edit Layer section, we can change the style as we want. In this section we can can change Opacity and change the Border Width as required. Now in the Attribute field, select state field to categorize the counties based on its individual attributes values.

Category Style - Edit Layer
Edit Layer

After selecting the required attribute field, all individual values will be listed with different colors assigned for each category.

Select Attribute Field
Select Attribute Field

We can change the color for each category by the color and choosing the right color. Then we have to click OK.

Category Style - Assign Color
Assign color to each category

After changing all color of the attributes we have to click on Save Style for styling the map categorically.

Save style
Save the Style

Now as you can see the map is converted into categorical style and the output map is shown.

Polygon GIS data categorized
Polygon GIS data categorized

For better view and make your data more interactive in the map, go to More and enable Make Interactive option.

Make Interactable
Make Interactable

Now as you see below, the USA county level boundaries GIS data is better visualized in state based categories and the map got more interactive.

Interactable Map
Interactable Map

You can share your map with others in public or private mode. Article Share your Map will help you understand more about Share Map feature of IGISMap.

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How to style point GIS data categorically

GIS helps users to understand patterns, relationships and geographic context. It benefit includes improved communication and efficiency, as well as improved management and decision-making. GIS combines datasets with maps, integrated regional datasets with any type of descriptive information or data. It provides mapping and assessment prerequisites for technology and almost every industry.

Visualization and intepretaion of data is what makes GIS a beautiful and interesting fields in data analytics. Science of visualization is the core essence in the art of cartography and mapping. Any type of geospatial features presented in the map with proper color combination, accurate size and location helps in better image interpretation. Quantity and category based representation of spatial features are the common visualization styles used in GIS.

IGISMap Styling Tools

IGISMap is a web platform providing multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. The peculiarity of IGISMap in the GIS Industry is its UI/UX that helps the user to perform effortless geospatial operations. IGISMap provides the following styling tools:

  • Basic Style
  • Category Style
  • Quantity Style
  • Bubble Style
  • Icon Style

Among the styling options listed above, Bubble Style and Icon Style are used to symboloze point GIS data, whereas Basic, Category and Quantity styling options are used to style polygon and polyline GIS data. Bubble Style is used to style the point GIS data quantitatively and Icon Style is used to style point GIS data with the icon or categorically by assigning separate icon for each categories.

In this article, we will talk about how to categorically represent point GIS data using Icon Style tool of IGISMap and will walk through the steps to style your data categorically like the following

Administrative Locations in London
Administrative Locations in London

Uploading the data

For the demonstration, we will upload the point GIS data of administrative buildings locations in London city and categorize it based on types. First lets upload this data using Upload Vector File tool of IGISMap.

Click https://map.igismap.com/upload-vector-files to open Upload Vector File tool.

After opening the Upload Vector File tool, here we can upload required the vector data in any of the following vector formats.

GML, KML, KMZ, GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GPX, GPS, GPKG, ODS, MAPINFO, SOLITE, ESRI SHAPEFILE DXF MID. MIF, PDF

Upload Vector File tool
Upload Vector File

In the Select Layer section we have to click on Browse and select the input file from the system, which is the GIS data of administrative building locations in Lonndon named as London_admins. After opening the file, click Upload.

Upload Vector File - Select Layer
Uploading the file

After uploading, input GIS data will be visible on the IGISMap screen, represented by default icon style as shown below.

Upload Vector File - Point GIS Data
Point GIS Data plotted on map

Open IGISMap Icon Style tool

After adding the input GIS data, we can style the points categorically using Icon Style tool. For accessing the tool, click Tools button at the upper left side of screen to open the map tools popup. Then select Icon Style tool listed under Style Your Data section.

Map Tools popup
Map Tools

We can also open the Icon Style tool by going to the More option of input point data and choose the Icon Style from the Edit Style option.

IGISMap More options
More options

Styling point GIS data categorically

After the tool appears, we have to select the layer from Select Layer section which is the London_admins data that is published in this map and then we have to click Next option.

Icon Style - Select Layer
Select Layer

Then the Edit Layer section is appeared. Here we have to choose Category Icon. Now in the Attribute field, select admin field to categorize the point data based on its individual attributes values. You can also assign a default icons size to applied for every icon style in the Set Market Size box.

Select the Attribute in Category Icon
Icon Style – Category Icon

In the Icon Overlap, you can change the option between True or False. Choose True if you want the icons to be overlapping when the map is zoomed out. Select False if you want to see every point icons any zoom extend of the map.

After selecting the required attribute field, all individual values will be listed with different icons assigned for each category, with default marker size. We can change the icons for each category by selecting the edit option and choosing the right icon from the list provided. We can also assign appropriate marker size for each category at Set Marker Size section.

Setting Icon and Marker Size
Setting Icon and Marker Size

After editing we have to click on Save Style for styling the point data.

Save the Style after Edit Layer
Save the Style after Edit Layer

Following all the process we get the desired output on the screen of IGISMap.

Point Map by Icon Style
Point Map by Icon Style

How to use Add Existing File tool of IGISMap

The applications of GIS tools are expanding in the field of business, research, defense, etc. Thus the features and tools of every GIS software are updating abruptly for helping users in these industries to get the right information by performing complex analyses over GIS data. But working with most of the GIS software in the market requires adequate training and dense knowledge in geospatial concepts.

That is where IGISMap is useful. IGISMap is GIS based web platform providing multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. The peculiarity of IGISMAP in the GIS Industry is its UI/UX that helps the user to perform effortless geospatial operations. In this article, we will discuss Add Existing File tool of IGISMap.

In IGISMap, GIS data is uploaded, created, edited and worked on a map. A map is a spatial interface that supports GIS data and give access to various tools to perform geospatial operations. As a user of IGISMap, you can create any number of maps and add GIS data of any formats.

Add Existing File is a tool that keeps the list of all data that are available on every map in your IGISMap account. Users can open this tool directly from the map or from the dashboard to view the list of data that are published in the maps. You can select any data from the list, preview it and add that data to the map. Thus you dont have to take effort on uploading the data again if it is available in any map.

Let’s look into the application of Add Existing File tool in IGISMap.

Get directed to Add Existing file tool using the following link https://map.igismap.com/your-data

Publish GIS data in the map

Let’s see how a data published in a map get listed in Add Existing Tool. So let’s first publish a data in a map. For this lets use Add GIS Data and publish USA county boundaries polygono data

Add data from IGISMap GIS data collection

Select united states of america from the list of countries and select the data administrative county boundaries and click Add Layer icon.

Download USA County Boundaries Shapefile

Add GIS Data
Add GIS Data

In the next step, since we dont need to crop the data, directly click Add Layer button as shown below.

Add GIS Data - Add Layer
Add GIS Data – Add Layer

Now, GIS data of USA county boundaries are successfully added in the map.

Add GIS Data - Data Published
Data Published

Publish data from Add Existing File

Now, we can add the USA County Level data layer using the Add Existing File. If you want add the data in a new map, open Add Existing File tool from the dashboard.

IGISMap Dasboard
IGISMap Dasboard

If you want to add the data from an existing map, click the Tools button below the layer list. This will open the list of all tools of IGISMap, as shown below.

In the section Add Your Data, click Add Existing File to open the tool.

Map Tools
Map Tools

Now Add Existing File tool is opened with the list of all images currently published in the maps of your IGISMap account. The data we added from Add GIS Data, which is administrative county boundaries data of USA is listed top of the list. Or you can search the data using Search Layer option.

You can click and preview the data like the following.

IGISMap Add Existing File tool
Add Existing File tool

Click Add Layer button to publish this layer in your new map.

Data published
Data published from Add Existing File tool

More link:

Download United States of America Administrative Boundary Shapefiles – States, Counties, Reservation Lands and more

Create point data and convert it into polygons

Voronoi polygon is an area representing the influence from a particular point location. A Voronoi polygon is actually a systematic way to divide spaces into a number of regions using a set of input points. For each point there will be a corresponding area that consists of the locations closer to that point than any other. These areas are called Voronoi cells.

IGISMap provides a Point to Polygon tool to create Voronoi polygons out of point from input point data. IGISMap is a web platform providing multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. In IGISMap, you can upload your GIS data and perform geospatial analysis.

In IGISMap, Point To Polygon tool will convert input point data into polygon data by creating a polygon shape for each point in the input point data, like the following.

Voronoi Polygon
Voronoi Polygon

Let’s look into the steps to use Point to Polygon tool of IGISMap.

Click https://map.igismap.com/point-to-polygon to open Point to Polygon tool directly

Point to polygon

After opening Point to Polygon tool, first step is to add the data using any of the following options:

  • Select
  • Create Points
  • Upload Vector
  • Upload CSV/Excel
  • Add GIS Data
IGISMap Point To Polygon tool
Point to Polygon

Here we are going to choose the option to Create Points and then convert the point to polygons through voronoi conversion. Thus lets first create and publish point GIS data.

Creating point data

Select Create Points tab which open Add Points section to plot points on the map at the desired locations.

Create Points
Create Points

Points can be plotted through any of the following options that can be used anytime in this section. They are:

  • Add Points
  • Search Address
  • Lat Lon Values

After finish the plotting, click Save and Publish button to publish the point GIS data.

Add Points
Add Points

Check the article Plot ATM locations on a map and embed in your website to know how to create point GIS data using Create Point Data tool.

Converting the Point data to Polygon data

After saving the point data, Convert Layer section is appears to carry out the point to polygon process.

Now click Convert button to run the point to polygon process.

Convert the Point Layer
Convert the Point Layer

As you can see, voronoi polygon layer is created and published in the map.

Voronoi Polygon
Voronoi Polygon

Sharing the voronoi polygon map

For sharing this map we have to click on Share Map button from the map. In the Share Map window, you can give the map name at the map title and  click on Next. Then a share map section appears.

Share Map
Share Map

Choose the option between Share Map as a link or Embed Map to get the html iframe to attach in the webpage. Here you can also two security of the map by selecting Public or Private.

Embed Map
Embed Map

Check the article Share your Map to understand the Share Map feature of IGISMap.

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Plot telephone pole locations online with attribute data

Structure of telecommunication networks are complex and create large quantities of geographically dispersed data. Consider you are a data engineer working in the telecommunication sector who wants to plot telephone pole locations with its attribute data to keep the track for its operations and maintenance. The attribute data added with the plotted locations can help you to observe information associated with each telephone pole and maybe embed this map on the department website.

GIS technology is advancing in various field including the telecommunications sector to build maps and perform GIS analysis. Limited GIS software are available that provides services in both creating maps and hosting them on websites. GIS mapping enables people working in telecommunication sectors to enhance network planning, deployment, maintenance, operations, and even sales and marketing.

IGISMap gives powerful tool sets to create interactive maps of locations and geospatial features associated with any applications based on social services, business analysis, scientific research etc. Using the tools in the IGISMap application, we can track, maintain and analyze the telephone poles. IGISMap is a web platform providing multiple GIS applications that are most important in the field of geospatial analytics. GIS tools of IGISMap application allows users to Add Data, Create Data, Map Data, Style Data, Process Data, Analyze Data and also help users to Share Data privately or publicly

How to plot Telephone pole locations online with Attributes?

Create Point Data tool of IGISMap is a powerful GIS tool to plot point vector data to represent locations and point objects with latitude and longitude value. Using this online tool, we can plot the locations of telephone poles and can add the attribute data to each location of the data created.

Telephone pole locations
Telephone pole locations

Click https://map.igismap.com/add-points to open Create Point Data tool

Create Point Data tool
Create Point Data tool

Start Plotting Points for Telephone Pole Locations

First step is Add Points, where we can start plotting the telephone pole locations as pins. IGISMap provides you with three features for plotting points: Drop Points, Search Address, and Lat Lon Values.

Drop points let us drop a pin at the desired location on the map. Zoom to the location of the telephone pole and click to add the pin.

Plot Point GIS Data
Add Points – Drop Points

Search Address option opens a search address box, where you can enter an address and choose the right location address from the dropdown and click the Plot button to plot a point on that location.

Plot Point GIS Data
Add Points – Search Address

Lat Lon Values will open two boxes to enter latitude and longitude values of the location you want to plot, Plot Location button in this option will plot a pin at the location you have entered.

Plot Point GIS Data
Add Points – Lat Lon

Also, a popup will open for entering attribute values in each attribute field for that telephone pole locations when a point is plotting. Click the Submit button to submit the save the attribute entries. You can choose to delete the point you plotted by clicking the Delete Point button. You can disable the default opening of this popup using the toggle button.

But we can open this popup anytime while plotting, by simply clicking on an existing pin.

Note: If the Drop Points option is active for dropping pins, it should be unselected for selecting the plotted pins to open the attribute popup.

After plotting every desired slum locations for our data, click the Save and Publish button to publish your data in the map.

Review and edit the datatable

After publishing Telephone poles, Show/Edit Datatable section will be opened. Here you can edit the attribute values entered for each point location after clicking button in the datatable along each row in the datatable. You can also choose to delete a point by clicking button.

Show Datatable
Show Datatable

Options to edit or delete the attribute fields are also available in this step along with the option to add new attribute fields to this data. If you thought of adding more points to the data of ATM Locations, select the Back button to go to the Add Points section, where you can add more points and make changes to the already published data.

Option to update the data table as bulk is available in this section. Where the whole data table can be downloaded in Excel format using Download Datatable button. And to make the changes outside IGISMap, then upload the edited/updated spreadsheet file using Upload Datatable button and integrate with the same point data of ATM locations. 

After making all the changes in the datatable, let’s move to the styling section by clicking the Next button to finish plotting.

Style Your Telephone Pole Points

A map will become more meaningful if appropriate icons and colors are used to visualize the features of the map. In IGISMap styling options, Bubble Style and Icon Style are provided for point GIS data.

In Icon Styling, IGISMap provides two more options – Basic and Category styling. Basic Style will provide an appropriate pin icon for styling the telephone pole points and apply it on the telephone poles data as follows.

Basic Icon style
Basic Icon style

Another style is the Category Icon styling, where users can select the category on the basis of which styling is added to the point data. For example, if the user selects maintenance attribute as a categorical option, style is changed to symbol using those items.

category icon style
Category Icon style

Check this article to understand How to style point GIS data categorically using Icon Style tool

Bubble style is used to visualize the data quantitatively based on the numerical fields in the datatable. We can assign the size and color of the bubble for each class of values.

Bubble style
Bubble style

Check this article understand How to create Bubble Map for point GIS data

Click on Save Style option to save the Bubble style option for the added points.

It’s done! Now if the user wants to add more points, click on Create more points on the layer option. If the user wants to create a new layer, select Create New Layer option.

Created point GIS data
Created point GIS data

After the point GIS data of telephone pole locations is published in the name Telephone poles, More option beside the data provides list of other features. They can be used for adding more points, showing the legend in the map, editing the style and more.

More options
More options

Check the article Share your Map to understand about Share Map feature of IGISMap.

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