Alan - I tried to reply to your original post but for some reason I could not get the response posted.
I would imagine that the issue you are experiencing is due in some part to a mismatch between your data and what the map is expecting to use to display the county data. I would say that the reason Antrim is showing as a circle is because it is using Antrim town on the map to show your dataset and not the County as you expect.
I have produced a number of Northern Ireland based maps - mostly using base maps that I have created in MapBox. I find a geojson for the data I need - usually on the OSNI website and then I use that to produce the base map that I need for COGNOS. It is a relatively simple process.
Do you just need to map data for Northern Ireland or is it broader than that?
Hi,
So I was having an issue creating a County map of Ireland in Cognos due to many of the County names being used in the U.S. (and Cognos seemingly defaulted to the U.S. locations). I solved this for the Republic of Ireland (ie., Southern Ireland) by adding a 'Country' column to my data along with a 'County' column the contains the county names (e.g., 'Dublin' Kildare' etc.). The 'Country' column just had 'Ireland' for the Rep. Ireland counties.
However, I am having issue creating the counties for Northern Ireland. I only have two N.Irish counties in my data ('Armagh' and 'Antrim'). But for some reason, Antrim is appearing as a circle, and Armagh is the correct shape but is rotated the wrong way. I tried changing the Country for these counties to 'Ireland', 'Northern Ireland', 'United Kingdom', and 'United Kingdom and Northern Ireland' - just to see if it makes a difference, but these two county shapes are not appearing correctly.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could fix this?
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Lorraine McAllister
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