Types of Maps that can be created with Mapping Software

You may not associate the mapping software with saving your time and money. But, it is a real fact, that using a mapping software solution in your business activities can impact your business performance as this software helps you to think more clearly and make better and more complete decisions. Depending on your company’s industry, you can create and use the map that meets your company’s individual needs and is most helpful for your business activity.

Map software saves time and money. Therefore, it is not surprising that mapping is used not only by route sales and pre-order delivery companies but by other businesses too. For instance, healthcare providers use map software solutions to supply their patients with the most efficient delivery of treatment as well as non-profits to communicate and organize volunteers’ activities. There are only two ways of using the mapping solution which can have a wide range of features.

• Pin maps show plots with a geographic location that is contained in the data such as a country, state, zip code, street, or others. Some pin maps can provide creating complex visualizations of different levels of data impacting the business activities that are expressed on the map by different colors or icons.
• Heat maps. On this map, colors and shades are used to reveal levels of the data occurring in the geographic areas. As a rule, the high level of data occurrence is expressed by a dark shade and the low levels are expressed by lighter shades.
• Territory maps are created by combining existing geographic boundaries.
• Color-coded maps. This map has different colored areas where each color represents a defined value. It makes it easy to see the independent geographic areas.
• Radius maps. This map shows datasets within the radius circles. Usually, it is possible to use various datasets on the same map which makes radius maps great for planning and achieving greater business efficiencies.
• Bubble maps allow discovering and revealing data trends in a fast, simple, and effective way. A bubble can represent anything. These maps summarize data derived from different geographic areas and reduce it to a single expression. The large bubble the higher the data occurrence.
• Route planning maps. This map creates an optimized route with multiple stops. The optimized route map defines which of the routes is the most efficient between stops.
• Interactive maps – web-based maps with clickable points. The interactive map can be a pin map as well as the radius map, territory map, route map, or bubble map.