Simple Map Plotting Utility

This utility allows the plotting of Google maps with included proportional markers, based on a file accessible through an URL (e.g. a Dropbox share link).

File Formats:

• tab-delimited text file (no quotes) or .xls
• fixed column order/content

NAME	CITY	COUNTRY	LATITUDE	LONGITUDE	COUNT	LINK	ICONLINK
Michael Baudis, UZH	Zurich	Switzerland	47.37	8.55	5	http://www.imls.uzh.ch/research/baudis/	http://progenetix.org/p/UZH_logo_80.png
Life Sciences Zurich Graduate School	Zurich	Switzerland	47	8	307	http://www.lszgs.ch
		Germany	51	10	217
		Italy	44	11	75
Walter White	Albuquerque	United States	35	-106	2	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad

Example (using defaults):

http://compbio.ch/simplemap/?locfile=https://www.dropbox.com/s/miybztfwfa2voau/LSZGS_student_countries.xls?dl=0

General Structure:

http://compbio.ch/simplemap/?locscale=___nnn___&imgw=___nnn___&mapheight=___nnn___&locfile=____URL____

Parameters to modify the plot:

• locfile= …
  • table (see above) with the loc data
• locscale=5
  • factor to modify the size of the circle markers
  • a value of 0 (or a negative number) suppresses the marker
  • no circle markers will be displayed if none of the count values is >1
• imgw=794
  • width of the map, in pixels
• mapheight=480
  • height of map, in pixels

Example with parameters:

http://compbio.ch/simplemap/?locscale=20&imgw=1024&mapheight=512&locfile=https://www.dropbox.com/s/miybztfwfa2voau/LSZGS_student_countries.xls?dl=0

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mbaudis, 2018-07-20