{"id":1352,"date":"2019-03-04T19:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeemaps.com\/blog?p=1352"},"modified":"2019-03-04T19:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:26:36","slug":"counties-map-name-fips-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeemaps.com\/blog\/counties-map-name-fips-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Counties: Map with Name or FIPS code"},"content":{"rendered":"

ZeeMaps provides easy mechanisms to highlight various geographies (e.g., countries, states, cities, zip codes) and geometries (polygons, circles) on a map. These highlighted areas or “regions” are helpful in marking out territories or service areas. One of the areas that is specially useful to highlight is US Counties, a first level administrative sub-division<\/a> in the United States after the state. County boundaries can be useful to analyze customer or sales data.
\nZeeMaps allows you to highlight counties in two ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. You can highlight a county one at a time, using the Additions -> Highlight Regions -> Counties on your map, and<\/li>\n
  2. Upload a list of counties contained in an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file, using the Additions -> Add (Upload) Multiple markers menu item on your map.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The second option is helpful if you have hundreds or thousands of counties to highlight. This blog post reports on a new development for the second option of highlighting counties.<\/p>\n

    Improving the user experience<\/h2>\n

    We are always looking for ways to improve the user experience \u2013 whether we are implementing changes we think would be useful or responding to feedback from our users. We are constantly working to improve existing user functions and to add new ones. That’s why we’ve been busy making US counties easier to work with.
    \nOne of the improvements has made highlighting US counties through spreadsheet upload far easier. Users can use a county name or FIPS code instead of specifying an address.<\/p>\n

    Highlight the top 10 and lowest populated Counties in the US<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Previously, users had to specify an address or location to highlight a county. Let\u2019s use our office in Cupertino, CA, Santa Clara, as an example. Earlier, we\u2019d need a column for \u2018City\u2019 and \u2018State\u2019, or Zip Code in our spreadsheet, to identify a location within the county. So, even if you knew the county name, in this case Santa Clara, it was not usable. You had to figure out a location within the county and use that as input to identify the Santa Clara county, instead of giving its name. Now it\u2019s possible to:<\/p>\n