Tableau Filled Map With Points

A map view is created with a data point for each state in your data source. Drag a geographic field into the view. When you are happy with that and ready to add your points, then.

Here’s one example of a filled map colored by region in tableau: State is added to detail on the marks card and longitude and latitude are added to the columns and rows shelves. Just put your actual lat and long fields on, with one duplicated, turn that into a dual axis map and then put the fields which are geocoded at the level you want for your filled map on level of detail and set the mark type to filled map for one of your axes.

Add the latitude and longitude fields for your data (which i assume differ from the generated ones) to the columns and row shelves.

Choropleth maps are best suitable for visualizing data for polygons. Drag ln to the columns shelf. Choropleth maps are also called filled maps in tableau. While a symbol map draws a symbol at the intersection of each latitude and longitude pair, filled maps draw a polygon around the entire border.