Link to external pages from within your data

Associating an external webpage with a single record in SpatialKey is easy. There are many different situations where this makes more sense than importing all of the data into SpatialKey. For example if you are visualizing real estate sales you may have an external site that provides details for each transaction and only import information into SpatialKey that you use for filtering. With crime data you may have a record link to a detailed view of the report. By linking to an external page you can greatly reduce the number of fields that need to be imported into SpatialKey and only import the fields that are needed for filtering.

SpatialKey automatically recognizes data that has external links where data within a column is prefixed with http:// as shown in Figure 1.


Figure 1: Spreadsheet view containing external links

Any data prefixed with http:// will be automatically linked from one of two different pods. Figure 2 shows an example of an external link when a data point is clicked on the map.


Figure 2: External link within the map

Figure 3 shows an example of an external link within the individual list pod. Any data within a column that is prefixed with http:// will become clickable.


Figure 3: External link within the individual list pod

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