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A heat map is a geographical presentation of data in numerical values using colors. This kind of map is heavily utilized to visualize the location-based data by highlighting trends and distributions across a geographic area. For example, an epidemic heat map was designed to illustrate recent Swine Flu epidemic cases around the world; the Michelin Guide can show the distribution of 1000 top rated restaurants in different countries with a heat map.

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  1. Create a Heat Map with iMap Builder Step 1.jpg
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    Download the interactive map building software from its official website and install in your computer.
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  2. Create a Heat Map with iMap Builder Step 2.jpg
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    Run the software, click the icon "Create" to create a new map.
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    Select the map on the left under Available Map Templates and a preview can be seen in the Preview window on the right. You can select the drop down list at the top to filter the maps by category, click "OK" to open the template.
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    Click [Heat Map Settings] tab and check [Enable Heat Map Function]. Choose the colors for start of gradient, end of gradient and highlight.
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    Click [Fill Heat Map Data] button and then a pop up window will be displayed.
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    Add numerical data in Heat Value column, and don't modify the ID and Region Name columns.You can import your data from an excel unicode text file (.txt) by pressing [Import from Excel] or click [Paste all from clipboard] button to paste the data from clipboard. You can also export the data to Excel by pressing [Export to Excel] for calculations in Excel Spreadsheet. Click [Verify Data] to verify if the numbers are valid integer values.
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    Click "Preview" in the menu bar to see how it will look in the browser.
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    Select File->Publish and select the folder you would like to publish the map.
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    After publishing the map, a "Publishing" pop-up window will be displayed. Copy and paste the embed code into your existing webpage using Dreamweaver/Frontpage or any other HTML editors.
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    Save the webpage (e.g myWebPage.html), navigate to the publish folder and copy the "imapbuilder" folder to the same directory as the myWebPage.html
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    Click Ftp Setting to set the ftp information. (Please do not fill in http:// or ftp:// in the Ftp Host) Default Host Directory is the path to your root directory of your server, you can leave it blank if you don't have this information. (Usually, it will be /public_html, /htdocs, /var/www/html, you may contact with your webhosting to get this information.)
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    After you set the ftp information, click Upload in the publishing screen.
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    Select Remote Folder if necessary and click Upload to start uploading.
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    After the upload is finished, you can browse the flash map by clicking the url link and you can modify the url link if not appropriate.
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