You can code things on your end to filter out non-states in a zoomed in
view. Entering states/provinces using the notation: "<country
code>-<state/province code>" (ie, "US-GA" for Georgia, USA) makes it easy
to programmatically distinguish between states/provinces and countries.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:57:38 PM UTC-4, Sean Power wrote:
>
> Sweet! One other quick question. The regions can either be ISO codes or
> text. I am running into a problem with Georgia the country being confused
> with Georgia the state at times (depends on resolution the user selects).
> So if I have a map with countries that includes Georgia the country, and
> the user zooms to US, Province resolution, they get Georgia the state.
> Oops.
>
> I can't use 2-digit ISO codes either, as then Indonesia gets dropped into
> Idaho, etc... Any thought to including the entire 3 segment notation as an
> option, its what we use internally. So 142.145.GE is georgia the
> country, 019.021.US.GA is georgia the state...impossible to get em mixed
> up.
>
> The only other way I can figure doing this is to NOT allow user to zoom to
> US province level when there is no data using UI logic, but what if we have
> state level data for US and want to show it? Anyways, thanks for taking
> care of below and considering above.
>
> Sean
>
> On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:02:31 PM UTC-4, Sergey wrote:
>>
>> Hi, thank you for finding this bug! I'm happy to announce that if you
>> switch to 1.1, this issue is now fixed! We hope to have it fixed in 1.0 in
>> a day or two.
>>
>> On Saturday, September 29, 2012 10:10:05 AM UTC-4, Sean Power wrote:
>>>
>>> backgroundColor.fill: 'none' - *works still.*
>>>
>>> And I can not get the
>>> datalessRegionColor: null - to work (I want a transparent
>>> datalessRegionColor).
>>>
>>> Agree 100% that whatever means transparent ('none', 'transparent')
>>> should be consistently applied.
>>>
>>> Agree 1000% that controlling the region borders (country, province,
>>> continent, subcontinent borders) would be a great stylistic improvement.
>>>
>>> See ya iFrame (cept for the automagic IE8 and earlier detection you guys
>>> are doing which is very cool, and retro).
>>>
>>> S
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 6:37:11 AM UTC-4, visigoth wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If it works for the background.fill, it would make sense to work for
>>>>> the datalessregioncolor no?
>>>>>
>>>> IMO, you're right. It makes perfect sense to be consistent. I'll refer
>>>> this to our GeoChart guy to look into when he's back.
>>>>
>>>> Glad you found a workaround for now.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Carlos Moreira
>>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the quick answer visigoth!
>>>>>
>>>>> Further testing, and I have some conclusions:
>>>>>
>>>>> datalessRegionColor: null - *works*;
>>>>> datalessRegionColor: 'transparent' - doesn't work, it did in the past
>>>>> - error message: 'none' is not a valid hex color
>>>>> datalessRegionColor: 'none' - doesn't work, it did in the past, and -
>>>>> error message: 'none' is not a valid hex color
>>>>> backgroundColor: {fill:'transparent'} - *works*
>>>>>
>>>>> So, i found out there's a workaround, but I have to change some maps
>>>>> that I did in the past and a tool I developed to generate them.
>>>>> If it works for the background.fill, it would make sense to work for
>>>>> the datalessregioncolor no?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'll wait until the end of the week to get some feedback for the
>>>>> borders question, no problem, thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Terça-feira, 25 de Setembro de 2012 11:34:29 UTC+2, Carlos Moreira
>>>>> escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello everyone!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nice to see the new release is out and working!
>>>>>> To bad HTML tooltips are not available for geochart... Still waiting
>>>>>> on that one :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bye bye Iframes, that's good!
>>>>>> The tooltip.trigger will also be usefull.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *I had one problem with this update tough*: I was using the color
>>>>>> setting: 'transparent' for maps, for the background and inactive
>>>>>> regions,
>>>>>> and it gave a really cool look in some designs.
>>>>>> Apparently now 'transparent' is not accepted, it throws and error.
>>>>>> Why is that? It was a nice feature!! Should I report this as an issue in
>>>>>> the visualization-api-issues project?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, what does it mean 'Improved border colors'? The borders of the
>>>>>> map container, or the country borders? Would be awesome for us to be
>>>>>> able
>>>>>> to control country borders colors also :)
>>>>>>
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