How to map your indicators

Getting started

1. Click on “Maps” in the main menu bar or on your dashboard

2. How your start screen could look like

Add a layer

3. To add a layer (one or more indicators to be mapped) click on “Add” in the upper left corner within the “Layers” menu

 

4. A pop-up menu opens

 

5. Choose a TYPE OF LAYER, either proportional circle, icon or pie chart (see examples below)

 

5a. Example of proportional circle

 

5b. Example of Icon

5c. Example of Pie chart

 

6. Open your database by clicking on the arrow in front of the database which show all its activities.

 

7. Choose one of your activities, click to open and see all its indicator categories

 

8. Open the indicator category to see the indicators

 

9. Choose the indicators to be mapped (either with a proportional circle, icon or pie chart) by ticking the box in front of it, and click “Add layer”

 

10. A map will be produced, showing the new layer. Additionally in the bar underneath the map information is show if there are (and if so, how many) activities which do not have geographical coordinates, hence could not be mapped

 

Adjust a layer

11. Adjust a layer by selecting the layer (within the menu in the upper right corner) by clicking on it. An additional menu will be opened. Click on what you want to adjust

 

12. Adjust the Style of a layer. Since the style differs within the different layers (proportional circle, icon or pie chart), three different examples and explanations:

 

12a. Adjust style with a proportional circle, choose a color from the menu by opening it from the drop-down menu or adjust the radius of the circle by adjusting the minimum and maximum radius by dragging the bar to the left or right.

 

12b. Adjust style with an icon, choose an icon from the menu list, and the map will be refreshed automatically

 

12c. Adjust style with a pie-chart, similar to the proportional circle, the minimum and maximum radius of the pie-chart can be adjusted. Secondly different colors can be assigned to all indicators in the pie-chart by clicking on the color in front of the indicator.

 

13. Adjust the aggregation level of the layer, tick the box in front of the aggregation level to be used, in this case administrative level. (NOTE: not all countries yet added, email activityinfo@bedatadriven.com to add additional countries or wishes for specific levels etc)

 

14. Adjust the level of aggregation. As an example here another level is chosen, territory instead of province, and ActivityInfo clusters your indicator accordingly in your layer at your map.

 

Adjust the layer by filtering

15. Adjust the layer by filtering, open the filter menu by clicking on it

 

16. Filter by date, click on “all dates” behind the title Dates. A menu opens in which a date range or standard date range (quarterly, for example: 2011Q3 or annually, for example 2010) can be selected. The time filter can be removed again by clicking on “remove”

17. Filter by partner, click on “all ” behind the title partners. A pop-up menu opens, in which the partners can be selected to be filtered. The partner filter can be removed by unticking the boxes again.

 

18. Add as many layers as you want, by adding in new layers, if you want to temporary not show a layer, just un-tick the box behind it in the “layer menu”.

 

Adjust the order of layers

19. Adjust the order of layers, by selecting the layer by clicking on it, and subsequently click on the icon with 3 dots (see example) and drag the layer above, or below, another layer within the “layer menu”

 

Delete a layer

20. Delete a layer, select the layer and click on it, a menu opens and click “remove”

Change the basemap

21a. Change the basemap, open the basemap popup by clicking “change” within the basemap menu (behind the basemap currently in use, in this case the google terrain map)

21b. Choose a map from the basemap pop-up menu, and click ok. Currently google maps (roadmap, satelite map, hybrid map and terrain map) are uploaded, for specific countries additional maps have been developed and adjusted upon request. For uploading custom made maps, contact activityinfo@bedatadriven.com.

Export

22. Export the data of the map to Excel, coordinates, information about colors and icons etc of your current map, can be exported to excel when pressing the “export data” button, which can be used by ARCgis and many other programs.

23. Example of an excel file, data export of a map

24. Export your map to PowerPoint, PDF, Word or as image, for example for presentations or reports, while pressing “export”

25. Choose one of the options for your export from the export drop down menu.