Map View
Basic Map View
You can create a map of your records if one of your columns has geographic information. Click on the Map of Latitude tab.
Fusion Tables automatically detects which columns have geographic information (highlighted in yellow in the Rows view). When you click Map of Latitude, Fusion Tables starts geolocating your data based on the geographic information of the most left column with the yellow highlighted fields. In this case, Lat/Long.
Customizing the Symbology
The default view is with all facilities (rows) being represented with the same symbol. To change this, click on Change feature styles... In the window that appears, select Points - Marker icon - Buckets:
Divide into 4 buckets
Column: total reported direct emissions
Update the range by clicking use this range
Select small green, small yellow, big yellow and big red for each category as shown in the picture here.
Click Save. Notice the results in your map.
Click on the heatmap option to see clusters of facilities in the region. Notice you can change your background to Satellite by clicking the Satellite button on the top left corner of your map. Click back on Feature map to work on the next steps.
Customizing the Annotation
Click on any facilityin your map. Notice the pop-up window that appears. It displays the first 10 attributes in the table. To change this, press the Change info window... button on the left.
As you un-check fields on the left, they disappear from the info window. Click the Custom tab and copy and paste the following html code:
Heatmap
<div class="googft-info-window"
style="font-family: sans-serif; width: 340px; height: 230px; overflow-y:auto">
<h2 class="color: brown"><P ALIGN=Center>{Facility Name}</h2>
<h3 class="color: blue"><P ALIGN=Center>{Address}, {Zip Code}, {City}, {State}</h3>
<p>This facility is classified as {Sectors_Industry_Type} according to EPA's sector industry categories. </p>
<p>It has reported a total direct emission of <b>{Total reported direct emissions}</b> for the year 2015.</p>
</div>
Click Save. Your map window should look something like this:
Publishing your Map
You can embed your map on your website or blog. To do this, first you need to Publish it. Click the Done button and on the top right corner, press the Share button.
Click Change... to the right of where it says Anyone who has the link can view. Select Anyone with the link. Click Save and Done.
In the Map of latitude tab, click the inverted triangle and select Publish. Change the visibility of your table to On - Anyone with the link. click Save.Copy the HTML code.
Go to your Google Site, start the editor, and change your editing mode by pressing the <HTML> button.
Paste the code. Click Save.
Tip: You might have to change the security settings in your browser to see your interactive map.