Visualizing Your Data - Oracle Application Express 4 Recipes - page 167

Figure 5-25. The map in action
10. If you mouseover each country, you can see a little tool tip displaying the total
sales amount for that country. You can also zoom in/zoom out and pan the
map using the navigation tools at the right.
How It Works
You can represent data on visual maps packaged with the APEX software. APEX provides a rich set of
maps of different parts of the world, and it allows you to overlay statistical data on top of these maps.
You might have noticed that APEX matched your data to the visual maps using the name of the
country you've provided. Is it possible, then, to get the full list of country names, state names, or
province names that are intrinsically recognized by APEX? APEX uses the third-party AnyMap
component to render its maps (and as a sideline note, the AnyCharts component to render its Flash
charts). The country names mentioned earlier are actually defined by the AnyMap product. If you
navigate to the AnyMap online documentation at http://anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/users-
guide/ index.html?maps-overview.html an d go to Maps  Maps Reference  World  World and
Continent Maps  Europe without Russia, you will see the full list of country names for this region (also
shown in Figure 5-26).