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Data Filtering with Scribble Maps

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We recently rolled out a large new feature to Scribble Maps called Data filtering. This allows you to quickly filter spreadsheets such as XLS, CVS, or just attributes you add yourself. To those unfamiliar with data filtering and GIS it might be a bit intimidating at first but data filtering is nothing more than showing data that you want to see based on specific conditions. We use data filtering all the time for ourselves. For instance when we are picking a hotel and want to see the ones with the highest ratings or ones that are in a certain price range. Both of these are examples of data filtering. The cool thing about Data Filtering in Scribble Maps is that once you define filters they can be used on our share view by others. When others are viewing your map they can turn on and off filters for the map to get to the data they are looking for. In order to filter data in Scribble Maps an overlay such as a marker or a shape needs to have an attribute. Attributes can either be ad