How to Upload Your Data

Integrate your own data in CSV, KML/KMZ, or shapefile formats into the Map Room. You can then load additional layers to do analysis with your personal data.

Full walkthrough video

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This tutorial is for you to master the data upload tool included with the SparkMap subscription. You will find help with

Selecting Data
Upload Data (CSV, KML, KMZ, ESRI Shapefile)
Data Information
Customize Data
Compare Data
Save, Share or Export

Select Data

Drop or click to select a file from your device (Figure 1). To populate your data in the map the file can be CSV, KML, KMZ, or compressed ESRI Shapefile.

Upload Data

Once the data is analyzed you can choose the geography type to map the data locations. Figure 2 shows a CSV file format showing how to geocode by matching the file’s address location columns to the Street Address, City, State, and Zip Code. If you are uploading data with a global address, select the name of the country column. Click Submit.

Figure 2 – Geocode Data

Data Information

The sample file contains a list of Real Estate transactions in the Sacramento area reported over a five-day period. You can click on a point to see more information. On Figure 3 you can see the original columns on the left (i.e. Street, City, Zip, etc.) with the recorded data for the specific point on the map.

Figure 3 – Point Information

Customize Data

Under the “Data Editor” tool on the upper right-hand side you can change the layer characteristics (Figure 4), such as the name, data category, and description of the data layer by clicking on “Basic Layer Info.”

Figure 4 – Data Editor

You can also change the map symbols and the color to fit your needs under “Map Symbols,” change what attributes to show and rename them under “Data Display” (Figure 5). Finally, you can add or edit features (e.g. points, lines or polygons) and you can manage the layer by downloading or deleting it (Figure 6).

Figure 5 – Symbol and Display

Figure 6 – Add, Edit, Delete

Compare Data

You can add additional data to the map to compare. For example, “Median Household Income” surrounding the “Real Estate” listings (Figure 7).

Figure 7 – Add Data

Save, Share, or Export

the file to your account, it in social media, by email , or it as an image or PDF file.

If you need any additional assistance feel free to email us at sparkmap@missouri.edu