What Is a Mapbook?

Think of a Mapbook the way you think of a spreadsheet. A spreadsheet holds your data in rows and columns. A Mapbook holds your location data in a map and a table, side by side.

Every analysis you run in Mapular lives inside a Mapbook. You can have as many Mapbooks as you need.

Core concepts

Mapbook

A Mapbook is your workspace for a specific analysis. It has a name, an access level, and a set of data layers called series.

Examples of how teams use individual Mapbooks:

• One Mapbook per country or region
• One Mapbook per expansion project
• One Mapbook per client

Series

A series is a data layer inside a Mapbook. It can be bundled data (demographics, points of interest) or data you upload yourself (your store network, leads, sales data).

Each series adds a column to the table and a visualization to the map.

Map view and Table view

Every Mapbook shows two panes side by side:

• Map view: A hexagonal grid of your data. The color (and optional height) of each cell shows the value for that area.
• Table view: The same data as rows and columns. You can sort, filter, and search here. Clicking a row highlights the matching hex on the map.

The two views stay in sync. If you click a hex on the map, that row gets highlighted in the table.

How to create a Mapbook

1. 1From the homepage, click + New Mapbook.
2. 2The platform creates a new Mapbook immediately and opens it.
3. 3Rename it by clicking the title in the header.
4. 4Add your first data layer using the Add column button or the sidebar.

Mapbook management

From the homepage you can:

• Rename a Mapbook by selecting Rename from the row menu
• Duplicate a Mapbook to reuse its configuration as a starting point for a new analysis
• Delete a Mapbook (owner only, with confirmation)
• Change access level to control who can see it (Private, Shared, or Public)

The homepage shows all Mapbooks you have access to, including ones shared by your team.