What about DataMaps? http://datamaps.github.io/ You'd need to do a tiny bit
of custom coding in popupTemplate, but it looks like it really would be
just a tiny bit?

Julia

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Julia Bauder

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Grinnell College Libraries

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks Christina --
>
> An image-map like this is an option, but a bit of a painstaking one. For
> something that needs to operate on a country-by-country basis (as opposed
> to continent-sized groups as on Pangaea), but shape-creation could get a
> bit cumbersome. I'm hoping there's a service that might do a good job of
> handling the heavy-lifting to turn a text list with associated countries
> into a slick-and-easy filterable list.
>
> After banging on Tableau for a while, and with some help from their
> support community, I've been able to devise something like what I want
> (albiet with Tableau's built-in limitations in terms of presentation):
> https://public.tableau.com/profile/ken.irwin#!/vizhome/
> GraphicTravelogue/Dashboard1
> As a proof-of-concept, I took a bibliography of graphic travel narratives
> from various countries and put them into this viz. It's not perfect, but
> it's a start.
>
> Any other ideas out there would be very welcome as well.
>
> Thanks
> Ken
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Pikas, Christina K.
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 7:41 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map
> clicks
>
> https://www.pangaea.de/ has that and I think all their code is open?  I
> think you can either click on a country or draw a bounding box.
> On the first page you don't get very granular, but on the results from
> that you can get extremely detailed.
>
> Christina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Ken Irwin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map clicks
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm looking for the right tool for the job. I'm helping a faculty member
> who wants an interactive bibliography: click on the map and get all of the
> bib entries that pertain to that country. It would be like the visual
> equivalent of this common way of filtering text with jQuery:
> https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_filter_lists.asp
>
> I'm imagining some thing that looks a bit like this, with the country
> highlighted and the bib details below:
>
> [cid:[log in to unmask]]
>
> This screenshot cobbles together a couple of views I was able to put
> together in Tableau, and I imagine that Tableau might be able to support
> the kind of application we're going for. But maybe a different datavis tool
> would do it easier, better, etc.
>
> Does anyone know of a tool that would do this sort of filter-by-map-click
> function? Anyone know what that kind of function might be called? It seems
> like it would be super-cool, but my Google-fu has failed me thus far.
>
> So far, I can get Tableau to show me the bib details for a single entry
> when there's only one entry per country, or it will show  me (as seen
> above) the number of entries for a country with more numerous entries, then
> it takes a few clicks to get to the bib details.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Ken
>