Adding A Heatmap Layer To Your Project In Spotzi

Add heatmaps to your project to visualize variations in income, demographic variables, consumer behavior, or your own sales data across a geographic area. Combine heatmap layers with your own locations to better understand consumer patterns, identify opportunities, and support informed decision-making.

Vlada Cernega
27 steps
3 minutes

Spotzi

This tutorial is intended for users who have already created a heatmap dashboard using Spotzi's premium data. If you haven't already created a heatmap, you can do so by following the steps in the link below: [Creating A Heatmap Based on Spotzi's Premium Data](https://scribehow.com/viewer/Creating_A_Heatmap_Based_on_Spotzis_Premium_Data__lJftYOn8QrKq0YegPm6icA)

Adding A Heatmap Layer To Your Project

Open the dashboard you would like to add a heatmap layer to. This can be any kind of dashboard which features your assets, custom POIs, polygons, or any other location data you may be working with in the platform. [Import and Upload Custom Locations into Spotzi](https://scribehow.com/viewer/Import_and_Upload_Custom_Locations_into_Spotzi__m_nieLIwRD2kBVzfvePkFA) [Campaign Planning with Out-of-Home Smart](https://scribehow.com/viewer/Campaign_Planning_with_Out-of-Home_Smart__RjhTtXBSSfKs4S9Ytgl68Q)

Click on the layers icon to open up the layers panel.

Click "Add layer".

Select a dashboard that contains the heatmap you'd like to add to this project.

Click "Add layer". The layer you selected will be added to your map.

Limit Your Heatmap to a Selected Region

Click on the filter icon to open up the filters panel.

Select the Layer Data\* filter and click "Edit". \**Since your heatmap layer has been **added** to this project, it is not the **base layer** and therefore cannot connect to the Spotzi Explorer filters. You may therefore only use the data within this layer (and not the data connected to other Spotzi Explorer datasets) when selecting your filter columns.*

Any other layer filters you've already applied to this project's layers will already be visible here. Click "Add filter".

Select your heatmap layer from the layer dropdown.

Select the column you would like to use for filtering. We can select the "Municipality" column if we want to limit our Canadian heatmap to Toronto.

Search for the municipality or municipalities you would like to limit your map to.

Select the values you're looking for and click "Done".

Click "Apply".

Your heatmap will now be limited to layer objects which match the filter(s) you selected.

Reorder Your Layers

Click the layers icon.

You can click and drag your layers to change the order in which objects stack on the map.

Dragging your heatmap layer to the bottom of the stack will ensure that the objects in your other layers appear above your heatmap.

Filter Other Layers to Match Your Heatmap Area

Click the filter icon.

Navigate to the Spatial Overlap filters and click "Edit".

Click "Add overlap".

Select the layer you would like to use as a spatial filter. If you would like to filter other layer objects to match the area of your heatmap, then your heatmap layer should be selected here.

Click "Add overlap".

Select the layer you would like to filter with your Spatial Overlap filter. This is the layer that will **change** based on its overlap with the layer you selected in the previous step.

Click "Done".

Click "Apply".

You will now only see the objects which overlap with your filtered heatmap.