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The Center of Gravity (CoG) of geographical locations is the optimal point where the weighted average distance to each specified location is minimized. This concept is essential for efficient planning and logistics. When planning a new facility—whether it’s a warehouse, distribution center, sales office, factory, restaurant, school, or shopping mall—determining the best location is critical. […]

Want to add more relevant context to your location markers. Well, with Maply, you are now able to attach multiple photos onto any location marker with just a few simple steps. Once you’re done with the changes are satisfied with your map, you can publish them as well allowing others to view it without a […]

Creating a location layer takes a couple of steps. Add a location layer, upload data according to the template, and wait for the map to load. It is easy and quick. But when you need to create many location layers, say more than 10, you start to wonder if there an even faster way, to avoid […]

A Geographic Heat Map, or heatmap, represents different densities of data points on a geographical map, allowing you to visualize the intensities of certain phenomena. By using various colors and gradations, it provides immediate visual insights into the areas with the highest activity or interest. According to Wikipedia, the term ‘heat map’ was coined and […]

Network maps can be very insightful to show the relationships between locations, such as offices and employee homes, distribution centers and store locations, restaurants and customer locations, schools and teachers and students homes, and so on. With resources and locations connected and displayed on the map, you can gain powerful insights that support your decision […]

Managing your legend when creating territory maps has never been easier on Maply! We have decided to create a new function that allows the user to customize the weight buckets. Before: After: Before, the legend was created automatically, with each weight bucket increasing exponentially. Now, however, weight buckets are customizable with the new “Manage weight […]

Have a list of postal codes with you and wondering how they are distributed geographically? You can easily visualize them on the map with Maply.

A territory map, also called choropleth map, filled map or thematic map, is a type of map in which areas (countries, states / provinces, counties, cities, districts, zip codes) are shaded or patterned in proportion to a measurement that represents an aggregate summary of a geographicac characteristic with each area, such as population density, or per-capita […]

What are labels? Map labels are texts positioned on a map, which can provide additional information to your map, serving as identifiers for geographic or other elements you may want to indicate. This makes the map easier to interpret and understand. This can include names, data, descriptions, locations or other relevant data. Below is an […]