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Display data for an Area/region

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11-01-2012 03:07 AM
DeanGross
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How can i put a region/area into a sharepoint list instead of a specific address? i'm interested in creating a list containing allowable per diem travel rates that would display when a user hovers an area on a map. The travel rates typically apply to a state or several counties. I think that this can be done using ArcGIS webparts and a sharepoint list, but i'm not quite sure of how to approach this. Will this require custom code?
TIA
Dean
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BrianRusso
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I don't think there's a way to do this out of the box, but you can deploy something functionally similar quite easily if you geocode to the centroid. We are doing this with countries, but I see no reason why it couldn't work for states/provinces or similar.

You will need to create a custom geocoding service. It's pretty simple. Take whatever polygon layer (e.g. US States). Convert that to centroid. Create a geocoder out of that point layer and publish it. Point SharePoint and your Location field at it. So they wouldn't be able to hover over 'Oklahoma' but you'd get a marker in the middle of Oklahoma they could hover over. Combine that with decent symbology of your borders and it seems functional to me at least.

Only thing to watch out for is cases where you have a very geographically dispersed polygon. For example if you take the "US" and create a centroid you may end up with something weird since it'll include Hawaii/Alaska/etc. So you may have to tweak it a bit, but for most admin boundaries it works fine.
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