Overall
A map-based visualisation is extremely useful when you have multiple assets distributed over a wide area – particularly when they’re connected together via links.
This allows you to quickly see how your assets and their values are distributed across wide geographic regions, without having to load ARDI-VE.
3D maps allow you to see the world and get a true understanding of exactly where remote assets are. However, there are a few caveats…
- They require your clients to have access to the internet,
- If you heavily use the visualisations, you may need to purchase an API key from a map provider, and
- They consume more data and perform slightly worse than using traditional 2D maps.
Example
In this case, we are looking at the flow rates and connections across a range of different river systems in Australia’s Murray Darling Basin. Note that the flow data being used is randomly generated and not reflective of real conditions.
The size of each red circle indicates the flow rate, while the colour indicates if the down-stream flow is less (blue), equal (green) or more (yellow) than expected.
You can find the example report on our Small Examples demo site.
Tips and Tricks
- This particular example uses MapBox as the source of mapping data. They not only provide a generous free usage tier, but you can customise the look and the content of your maps, allowing you to remove excess detail (ie. walking trails, businesses), leaving only relevant content.
See Others
3D visualisationsDirectional visualisations
Dynamic visualisations
Flow visualisations
Infographic visualisations
Interactive visualisations
Live visualisations
Map visualisations
Sankey visualisations