Mastering Qlik Sense

Geo data fields

Qlik Sense automatically recognizes that one of the tables contains geographical data, namely the Location table. Because Sense comes with an out-of-the-box map extension, whenever it identifies a field with geographical data in it, it will create either an extra field containing geopoints (for cities) or polygon data (for countries). The new fields are created within the same table where the geographical data is located in the format <data_field>_GeoInfo.

In my example, the Location table has two geo fields, CountryIsoCode and Country. Qlik Sense will create two fields containing polygon data with one called CountryIsoCode_GeoInfo and another one called Country_GeoInfo.

You can then use these fields to plot data on the map. ...