If you’d like to change the name of this layer in the menu, just select the text of the layer name (the default will be the file name). You should now see your data as a layer in the menu, and your points plotted on the map. For this example, select the Date column and hit Finish: Now pick the column you’d like to use to title your markers. Tip: If you don’t have latitude and longitude information, you can use addresses in your columns instead. You can hover over the question marks to see sample data from that column. For this example, select the Lat and _ Long columns_, and hit Continue. columns with latitude and longitude information). You may upload a table containing up to 2,000 rows (see supported data formats and limits here).Īfter uploading your data, you’ll be asked to select the column(s) with location information, so that your data will be correctly placed on the map (e.g. Tip: You can also import a XLSX file or a Google Sheet. This will be the first data layer we upload. Select the sharksightings.csv from your desktop. If a shark is seen along the beach, the spotter sounds a siren and raises a specific color-coded flag, upon which swimmers are requested to leave the water. This spotter is in radio contact with another spotter on the beach. A spotter is placed on the mountain with polarised sunglasses and binoculars.

Shark Spotters are positioned at strategic points along the Cape Peninsula. This map shows the location of Shark Spotters along the False Bay coastline in South Africa, as well as all reported white shark sightings between September 8, 2012, and February 22, 2013. Now copy and paste the text below into the Description dialog box:

In this case, we’ve supplied some text below for you to copy and paste into the Map title dialog box: In the welcome pop-up, select Create a new map:Ĭlick the text Untitled map to edit the map title and description.

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