Below is a view of Table Mountain as seen from Signal Hill.Įven without using Street View, you can zoom in as much as you can in regular Google Maps. As you would in a regular Google Map you can drag the little yellow man to wherever you’d like to take a look at the view!Īnd lo and behold we can access the Street View in Data Studio itself. So below I’ve zoomed in on Cape Town, South Africa. This gives users the option to create or import their own custom Map Styles which opens up a huge number of possibilities! Looking at the Level of Detail available in Google MapsĪ great feature of these maps is the level of detail that’s possible. There’s also the option to add a custom JSON file So we don’t see country names, borders or any road networks. You can also adjust various settings to get a map that you want.įor example, for the map below I’ve selected a regular Map type, and then turned off streets, landmarks and labels. Within these two options there is plenty of scope for customization.īelow is a regular Google Map in Data Studio.Īnd here is a satellite Google Map in Data Studio.

The two main choices are whether to go for a Satellite map or a regular Map.

I’ll give you a run down of some of the map styling options available at the launch of Google Maps. Different Map options for Google Maps in Data Studio In my case I’ve chosen size to equal the number of users and colour to indicate the number of page views. It’s also possible to add an additional Tooltip to each Dimension.įor the metrics you can choose to have a Bubble Size and Bubble Colour represent different values. You can choose a geographic field to be the Dimension. So at the time of writing, it is only possible to display data as Bubbles and not Areas. Looking at the different options for displaying data in the Google Map

My google maps