# Geomap panel
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This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support **Grafana version 8.x**.  
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 12.x, see [Working in Grafana version 12](using-grafana-v12.md).  
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The **Geomap** panel visualization enables you to view and customize the world map using geospatial data. To easily focus on the important location-based characteristics of the data, you can configure various overlay styles and map view settings.

## Data layer
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The data layer in the Geomap plugin determines how you visualize geospatial data on top of the base map.

### Location
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The **Geomap** panel needs a source of geographical data. This data comes from a database query, and there are four mapping options for your data.
+ **Auto** automatically searches for location data. Use this option when your query is based on one of the following names for data fields.
  + geohash: “geohash”
  + latitude: “latitude”, “lat”
  + longitude: “longitude”, “lng”, “lon”
  + lookup: “lookup”
+  **Coords** specifies that your query holds coordinate data. You will get prompted to select numeric data fields for latitude and longitude from your database query.
+  **Geohash** specifies that your query holds geohash data. You will get prompted to select a string data field for the geohash from your database query.
+  **Lookup** specifies that your query holds location name data that needs to be mapped to a value. You will get prompted to select the lookup field from your database query and a ` gazetteer`. The ` gazetteer ` is the directory that is used to map your queried data to a geographical point.

## Markers layer
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The **Markers** layer allows you to display data points as different marker shapes such as circle, squares, triangles, stars, and more.
+ **Marker Color** configures the color of the marker. The default Fixed size keeps all points a single color. There is an alternate option to have multiple colors depending on the data point values and the threshold set at the **Thresholds** section.
+  **Marker Size** configures the size of the marker. Default is ` Fixed size` , making all marker size the same regardless of the data points. However, there is also an option to scale the circles to the corresponding data points. ` Min` and `Max ` marker size has to be set such that the Marker layer can scale within these ranges.
+  **Marker Shape** provides you with the flexibility to visualize the data points differently.
  + Circle
  + Square
  + Triangle
  + Cross
  + X
+  **Fill opacity** configures the transparency of each marker.

## Heatmap layer
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The **Heatmap** layer clusters various data points to visualize locations with different densities. To add a heatmap layer, under **Data Layer**, choose **Heatmap**.



Similar to **Markers**, you are prompted with various options to determine which data points to visualize and how.
+ **Weight values** configures the intensity of the heatmap clusters. Fixed value keeps a constant weight value throughout all data points. This value should be in the range of 0\$11. Similar to **Markers**, there is an alternate option in the dropdown to automatically scale the weight values depending on data values. 
+  **Radius** configures the size of the heatmap clusters.
+  **Blur** configures the amount of blur on each cluster.