Limit Cluster Legend to Integers

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12-08-2022 11:20 AM
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PeterKnoop
MVP Regular Contributor

When using Clustering in the Map Viewer, it defaults to displaying a count of features. Since counts are inherently integers, the legend should also be limited to integer values.

If the range of the values being clustered contains fewer than 5 distinct integers, then it should reduce the number of legend items to maintain each being an integer.

If the range needs breaks, then those breaks should also be integers; adjusting the number of items in the legend to accommodate the range.

For example, if you happen be viewing an extent where the count of features ranges from 2 to 3, then the legend should only have two values in it: 2 and 3. It should not display fractional values, as it currently does:

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It is confusing to indicate fractional counts, as it is impossible to have a fractional count. Furthermore, there are no symbols on the map that are not 2 or 3, so it overly complicates the legend to have those fractional values presented. 

 

2 Comments
RussRoberts

Yup what we would need to do in this case when you get down to this scale with clusters is drop the number of classes from 5 down to 2 or 3. This could be jarring for some users for viewing the legend while panning and zooming but would have symbols represented the whole number values. 

PeterKnoop

@RussRoberts as the legend values are already potentially changing when you pan/zoom, I would suppose that this would not be any more jarring than what the user is currently experiencing. I might suggest that the number of legend values changing provides a stronger visual cue to the user that the legend can update on the fly as they pan/zoom.