More on maps:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/forum/topic/map-shapefiles-and-points
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/polygon-shaded-maps
http://downloads.tableausoftware.com/quickstart/feature-guides/bkimages.pdf
http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/knowledge-base/polygon-shaded-maps
Dual Axis Maps
video by Joe Mako: http://www.tableausoftware.com/support/forum/topic/map-shapefiles-and-points
Background images
Can use a point annotation with the X & Y coordinates as the label, then drag the annotation around to ID points on the image that can be used to create the custom polygons. (Speeds up the process).
Also for finding X/Y positions: Point Position is a freeware tool for PCs that will find X/Y coordinates on screen.
Geocoders
https://webgis.usc.edu/Services/Geocode/About/GeocoderList.aspx
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/
Batch geocoder that Shawn recommends, for up to 1K addresses at a time:
http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/batch-geocode/#.UFHpmo2PWSo
Latitude/longitude finder
http://community.tableausoftware.com/thread/119855
Can also do stuff w/Tableau’s data
http://community.tableausoftware.com/ideas/1488
free zip code DB
http://federalgovernmentzipcodes.us/
Shapefiles
http://datalicious.sharedby.co/share/7W7ksf
Zip Code Radius Finder
Also links to Richard Leeks’ geohack work
http://community.tableausoftware.com/thread/117607
Concentric circles
http://community.tableausoftware.com/thread/110652#comment-43605
Richard Leeke post on binning latitude/longitude data in different ways:
http://community.tableausoftware.com/message/179505#179505
http://www.tableausoftware.com/community/support/kb/mapping-datapoints-google-maps
pic, and lat/long for arbitrary points
http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.php?lat=44.087585&lon=-70.224609&setLatLon=Set
address to lat/long lookup:
http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
Jittering map points
http://community.tableausoftware.com/message/227745
Great Circle routes – Flight path type maps
http://www.tableausoftware.
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