Example - Create a Map Report

You are a report author at The Sample Outdoors Company, which sells sporting equipment. You are asked to show how revenue for the company is distributed throughout the world. This information can be shown in tabular format using a list report, but a map will create a more meaningful presentation. You decide to create a report that contains a map of the world showing the distribution of revenue by country and region.

Procedure

  1. Open IBM® Cognos® Report Studio with the GO Data Warehouse (query) package.
  2. In the Welcome dialog box, click Create a new report or template.
  3. In the New dialog box, click Map and click OK.
  4. In the Choose Map dialog box, in the Maps pane, expand the World folder and click World.
  5. In the Region layers box, click Countries and Regions + Territories.
  6. In the Point layers box, click None.
  7. In the Display layers box, click Oceans.
    Tip: You can select or deselect multiple display layers by Ctrl+clicking.
    Tip: You can return to the Choose Map dialog box at any time by double-clicking the map background.
  8. Drag the following data items to the map:
    • Revenue (in Sales fact) to the Color drop zone.
    • Retailer country and region (in Retailer site) to the Location drop zone.
  9. Run the report.

Results

Figure 1. World map
the final world map
Parent topic: Maps