I have imported some data as pins (all correctly imported with the balloon showing the postcode), however, when I change the map type to Shaded Area, I am losing some information. For Example, I have 2 pins with the Postcode IV26 2TH which have correctly imported, when I change to Shaded Area by Postcode Sector e.g. IV26 2 this area shows no shade and exporting the data set shows no data!! How do I successfully change a Pushpin map to a Shaded Area map without data loss?
This isn't really a programming question - hence I see someone has already voted to close.
MapPoint does have some missing area data - especially in the European editions. I think it is MapPoint 2013 that has no postcode data for the whole of Brussels!
Also it is quite possible that MapPoint 2009 does not have IV26 2 in its database - IV26 2TH isn't quite where it should be (ie. it has located it to IV26 or something like that).
MapPoint 2009 was released in 2008 - it has data at least a year older than that. There are more recent versions of MapPoint. However Microsoft have now discontinued MapPoint. They stopped selling it at the end of last year, and official support (limited as it was) officially stops at the end of June. Switch to an alternative application.
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I am somewhat struggling with a project that I have set myself to do:
I am attempting to create a Web application for ServiceDesk work schedule. The app would show a schedule on a principle of week/month/year with the option to change view and enable users to see a spreadsheet like schedule for their daily assignments. A similar view as such, just maybe less detailed.
I am trying to build it in Oracle Apex. Now I have narrowed it down to 2 possibilities in terms of layout: either I use calendar, in which the layout would be slightly different and would basically have to show each task with details of who and what, or I go for Gantt chart and make it so that the left side shows names of the employees and the upper side shows time in days/months/years.
What I am struggling with is whether one or the other is the right way to go. I am trying not to make it too complicated for the administrator to make changes (at the moment, the work schedule is in excel spreadsheet, updated every month) as that would be counterproductive and could make it worse to use than excel. Also, the reason why I chose Apex is the fast that the company I work for actually uses apex in a lot of the projects and would be a bit easier to integrate with the rest of the systems already in play.
Any tips or guidelines to follow would be greatly appreciated!
Jervis,
Based on your comment:
Apex Calendar region is not appropriate here, as the ability to customize it is very limited. You couldn't even get it to show the 30 days shown in your mock-up.
I don't think Apex Charts would allow the formatting you're looking for either.
You need a grid region of some sort where you can arrange and style it. You can try an Apex Interactive Grid region. That doesn't include drag-n-drop functionality out of the box and I don't know of a free plug-in adds that functionality. That will probably do the basics of what you want
If you can pay for a commercial Apex framework, I'd recommend the FOEX Enterprise framework, which adds a ton of functionality and interactivity, including editable grids that you can drag-n-drop. It's not cheap (per-developer licensing) and there's a learning curve because it's a different way of doing Apex, but it's a very solid product and you can buy consulting time from them.
(I'm a FOEX customer, not an employee or a shill)
To give some background, I made some upgrades to an existing macro written by an ex-employee. As such, I didn't touch any of the core functions that were existing. Essentially the macro creates a bunch of reports based on the input.
The macro runs perfectly fine in the UK, however we are trying to expand it to some some teams in Europe. Testing this has resulted in some issues which are dependent on regional settings e.g. when the macro is run in Sweden it provides different result to when it is run in the UK on the same source data, however when the regional settings on the computer in Sweden are changed to the UK the output report matches that in the UK.
I've tried looking at system separators but unfortunately this doesn't seem to be making much of a difference to the results (commas and decimal separators).
I've looked at changing the region settings to the UK and then back to the host country but can't find anything on this. Any ideas or help on how to do this would be great.
Thanks!
EDIT: It's difficult to share the code due to the amount of modules (50). I think the best way may be to look at the format settings for different countries vs. UK and see if there is a way to set the excel workbook to run on the UK settings.
May be currency setting would be there. if you are able to share the code that is easy to understand and help full to get the solution.
I had similar experience when working on some European projects. The list separator may differs. In some regions it is comma, while in others it is semicolon. If this is not the case, then maybe you can create a function to change the PC's region setting to UK before your reports generation and then retrieve it back to the host region.
We have a well established SSAS cube design in production, with a large selection of SSRS reports and ad hoc user reports available. The cube design is somewhat complex, with a large number of business rules written into the calculations.
There is a new business requirements to add what is essentially a new entity to the data. Normally this would be allowed for in the design of the cube and would fit well within the existing dimensions, specifically this a new office location within a firm hierarchy linked to all the new fact data. However, the requirement this time is that is does not roll up within the main firm hierarchies, but should be reportable in the exact same way.
My thoughts on possible solutions for this:
Add the new entity as normal like in the example, a new office. Then change all the existing MDX SSRS reports to Except() this office.
Write more cube calculations that scope the firm level of all hierarchies and exclude the new office.
Create a new cube, which is an exact duplicate of the existing cube but uses a set of views which excludes the data via SQL. Copies of required reports could be pointed at this new cube.
I'm looking for options I have possibly not thought about and guidance on the best practice approach for this further development.
Please let me know if I need to add more information.
All your listed options seem like a lot of work.
I think this change could be more easily done within the existing dimension structure itself - rather than recoding every single thing in the entire cube to cope with this one exceptional case.
If, for example, your existing hierarchy looks like this:
ALL
Region
Country
Office Location
you could assign your "special" office to a new, irreal region and country, so that your regions list might look like this:
Europe
Asia
USA
South America
Special Office
The "special" office would then only roll up into the absolute highest level of the hierarchy. If required, you could mitigate this by adding a new level to the hierarchy, between "All" and "Region" - let's call it "Company" for convenience's sake - which would look like this:
TheNormalCompany
SpecialOfficeOnly
You could then use dimension security to restrict most users to member TheNormalCompany at this level in the hierarchy (but watch out for the Visual Totals gotcha). Those who do want to see the "special office" data can be restricted to the SpecialOfficeOnly member, or granted access to both.
Lately we've started getting issues with outdated countries / regions list being presented to users of our web-application.
We currently have a few DB tables to store localized country names along with their regions (states). However as the planet goes, that list is in constant evolution and it's proving to be a pain to maintain as some regions are deleted, some merged - existing data needs to be updated all the time.
What are, if any exist, the best practices when it come to dealing with multi-locale countries/regions list?
Is there a place or a standard in place? I know of ISO 3166, but their list isn't exactly DB friendly ... plus it's not fully localized.
An ideal solution would simply allow us to "sync" to it? Preferably in multiple language. The solution would preferably be free or subscription based with an historic of what changed so we could update our data (aka tblAddress)
Thanks!
geonames is pretty accurate in this respect, and they update regularly.
http://www.geonames.org/export/
There is no such thing. This is a political issue, which you can only solve in the context of your own application. Deciding to use ISO 3166 could be the easiest to defend. I know of issues with at least:
China/Taiwan
Israel/Palestine
China/Tibet
Greece/Macedonia
The ISO lists here are DB friendly, though they only include short names and codes.
This one looks very good: Multiple languages, update option, database independent file format for import, countries/regions/cities information, and some other features you might use or not.
And it's quite affordable if you need it for only one server.
You can try CLDR
http://cldr.unicode.org/
This set of data is maintained by the Unicode organization. It is updated regularly and the data is versioned so it is easy for you to manage the state of your list.
Hy! you can find a free dump of all countries with their respective continents https://gist.github.com/kamermans/1441495, its much easy to use.just download the dump & upload in your data base.
Well, wait, do you just want an up-to-date list of countries? Or do you need to know that Country X has split into Country Y and Country Z? Because I'm not aware of any automated way to get the latter. Even updates to the ISO databases are distributed as PDFs (you're on your own for implementing the change)
The EU maintains data about Local Administrative Units (LAUs) which can be downloaded as hierarchical XLS files in several languages.
United Nations Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49).
Look for "Search and Download: Full View" on page left. That leads here.
Groups countries by continent, sub-continental region, Least Developed Countries, and so on.
If you cannot import the excel version, note that the csv has unquoted" fields and a comma in one country name that will bust your import ("Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba"). Perhaps open it first in LibreOffice or whatever, fix the broken country name and shunt its other right-most columns back into place. Then set all cells to type Text, saveAs csv with [Edit Filter Settings] checked [x] in the saveAs dialog, and make sure string delimiter is set to ", as it should be by default.
i've been asked to generate some demographic reports (crime rates, birth/deaths, etc) based on state and cities for the USA. I have all the demographic data (provided by our client) but can't seem to find any places which have the boundaries (read: LAT/LONG's) of the USA States and their cities.
Our data are Lat/Long points of data (eg. a crime, a birth, etc) and we want to get some mapped reports and also datamine using Sql server (we're using MS Sql 2008, but that shouldn't impact this question).
So .. can anyone direct me to where there are some state and city boundary sources? I know our government has all this information available for free at the US Census Bureau, but i can't seem to understand where it's found and how to digest this info.
I'm assuming that this info will be in the form of lat/long polygons (eg. a shapefile, etc) which i can then import into the DB and mine away.
Can anyone help, please?
A bit late, but in case anyone stumbles across this like I did:
To get the city boundary layers you navigate to "Download Shapefiles" for the year you're interested in and drop down to the city boundary layer, which is called "Places". (which is not an intuitive enough name for me...)
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2011/main
That's the link for 2011's shapefiles.
I can suggest the post http://adventuresdotnet.blogspot.com/2009/06/sql-server-2008-importing-tigerline.html
Here's a link to the 2008 TIGER/Line shapefiles, and it sounds like looking at the TIGER/Line Shapefiles FAQ would probably be helpful -- other info at the main page for the 2008 data set.
I know the census is difficult to navigate at times. Try going to the National Atlas at nationalatlas.gov also the National map at http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html
I think you are looking for GIS data. For example, I found US Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2007FE Shapefiles Mississippi, United States although I am not sure what you get with the download nor how to exploit the information...
HTH.
Was not able to use the tiger.. something web site. pain in the rear. Just download the file at the location below and may be trim according to your necessity.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/geodata/catalog/national/html/cities.htm