Amazon Quick Sight layer maps can now draw points and routes
Amazon Quick Sight layer maps can now plot points and routes, with store locations and flights leaving an airport as the examples. Layer map visuals support LineString geometry, which connects an ordered list of coordinates into a single path.
A layer map gets its shapes from a GeoJSON file and its metrics from a Quick Sight dataset, with a shared key joining the two. When you configure a layer, you choose the geometry type to render: Points, Lines, or Polygons. The store setup uses one GeoJSON feature per store and one dataset row per store, with the geometry type set to Points.
Quick Sight also offers a native point map visual that geocodes location names automatically and refreshes with your SPICE schedule or Direct Query connection. The practical question is whether you can supply geometry or would rather have names geocoded.
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The join key is the quiet centre of this feature: the GeoJSON supplies the shapes, the dataset supplies the metrics, and a shared key joins them.
Which is why I would not reach for a layer map when I only have a list of place names. The native point map already geocodes names automatically.