Visualize points and routes with GeoJSON in Amazon Quick Sight layer maps | Amazon Web Services
With Amazon Quick Sight layer maps, you can now plot points and routes, like store locations across a city or flights leaving an airport. Geospatial maps help businesses spot patterns that are tied to location, like how a region is performing or where customers are concentrated. Amazon Quick Sight supports this with multiple map types, including point maps, filled maps, and layer maps. When layer maps first launched, you could upload a GeoJSON file to draw custom shape layers, such as sales territories or districts, and join those shapes to a dataset. That handled regions and boundaries well, but it didn’t cover the individual locations inside them or the routes running between them.
Layer maps now support two more geometry types from the same GeoJSON workflow: Point and LineString. Points mark specific locations, such as individual store or facility sites. A LineString traces the route between locations, like...
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