New in Felt: Geocoding, Geomatching, and Choropleths

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Powerful New Visualizations

Upload data with numbers and automatically see maps with ramped colors & sizes to intuitively make sense of your data across geographies and share your insights with your team.

Felt Styling Language can now create choropleths and other visualizations from the numeric values in your data uploads. Felt has expanded our support for numeric data to include new classification methods like quantiles, equal-interval series, standard deviations, and Jenks Natural Breaks. Go beyond our existing categorical visualizations and create a great-looking map from any uploaded data. Style and share demographic, economic, or public health maps with your team generated from your own data.

With Felt, you can use the numeric values in your data to assign color and size ranges to points and polygons.

The data you upload to Felt is pre-processed for fast visualization: we convert numeric-looking fields to calculate statistics, attach geomatched address points and region polygons, and make rendering fast and responsive with Tippecanoe so you can focus on making your map tell the right story.

Work With Complex Data

See all the layers of data from your uploads and combine them in new ways with Felt’s multi-dataset support. We’re improving your visibility into the many datasets a single upload can contain, like multiple tables in a Geopackage, lines and routes in an OpenStreetMap file, and tracks and waypoints in a GPS file.

Now, you can tell a better story with your map by curating and assembling groups of datasets into a clear legend. You can assemble separate uploads into grouped sets with a unified legend, something previously available only in our curated Data Library layers like the trails, boundaries, and access points in our National Parks layer. Support for multiple datasets extends all the way down to Felt Styling Language, and we’re making all of our existing Data Library layers available for editing, styling, and remixing into your own maps.

Easily create complex visualizations with multiple layers of related data like these hurricane predictions.

Make Powerful Maps With Felt

We’re excited to see what you do with Felt’s expanded support for uploaded data. Do you have spreadsheets with addresses or place names that would make a bigger impact shown on a map? Stop scouring the internet for geocoding services and administrative boundary files and use Felt’s geocoding and geomatching. How can you make sense of patterns in your data? Try Felt’s new statistical visualizations. What story will you tell by juxtaposing different datasets with one another? Drag and drop your spreadsheets directly onto the map and watch Felt handle the rest.

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Help Docs

New to Felt? Here are a few documents that will help you get the most out of the product: