Visualize with new base maps, crisp imagery, and deeper place data
By: Matt Irwin
Alteryx began as a spatial platform — “alter the y/x” — empowering users to enrich, analyze, and visualize their data. Increasingly, business data has a location context, and maps are its canvas. We’re excited by the announcement of a ground-up refresh of Alteryx maps onstage at Alteryx Inspire this week. The update brings new content, capabilities, and a unified experience across prep, Visualytics, and reports. Check out what’s new:
1. New base maps
Alteryx is refreshing data and cartography across their platform and adding two new base maps: streets and outdoors. The new streets map highlights road infrastructure, landmarks, and points of interest to contextualize analysis for retail site selection, on-demand logistics, and more. The outdoors map highlights natural features to support cellular network optimization, for example.
2. High-resolution imagery
Alteryx is adding crisp, beautiful satellite and aerial imagery for the entire globe. In the United States, Alteryx users will have access to 7.5 cm imagery the top 250 cities. That’s good enough to count the individual roof tiles at the Gaylord where they’re hosting this week’s conference.
3. Deeper, fresher data
Alteryx is also expanding their data depth and coverage while improving recency with continuous, daily map data updates. For example, Alteryx users will see building coverage improved by 76% to 125 million building footprints, suitable for analyzing real estate square footage or flood and fire risk for insurance premiums. Check out Denver below. Previous coverage is shown in purple and new coverage in blue.
4. Enhanced language support
Alteryx maps now include global coverage in 10 languages — English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic — plus country-specific coverage for 192 languages to help insights cross borders.
Alteryx and Mapbox are just getting started. We’re excited to work with the Alteryx team on new features that unlock massive performance improvements for maps, custom map designs, direct access to map data for deeper analysis, new visualizations like heatmaps and 3D, and support for dynamic data.
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