This whitepaper from Tableau outlines 10 ways to enhance dashboards with maps, emphasizing clarity, context, and interactivity. It advises minimizing clutter, sometimes removing base maps to let data stand alone, and using maps as filters or interactive legends. Color consistency is key for accurate comparisons, while creative use of shapes, static graphics, and inset maps can improve storytelling. Highlighting actions keep users oriented, and locking pan/zoom prevents distraction. These techniques, supported by real-world dashboard examples, help designers create visually engaging, accurate, and user-friendly map-based analytics.

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