Get Your Organization Ready to Participate in the Upcoming World Health Day

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - May 2, 2013 - PRLog -- As World Health Day is fast approaching, many organizations could be more prepared before joining this worldwide celebration by making in-depth analysis. From this analysis, they can stress out applicable points regarding public health concerns in their areas. A valuable preparation tool is an online mapping site dedicated to bring great data visualization that tells stories that can be used to achieve different goals including:

Health awareness

Promotion of health behaviors like self-care

Enabling environments

Topo.ly is able to do this through its reliable features that maximize the use of mapping technology:

Build Maps for Free

Building maps for free with Topo.y’s mapping application takes only a couple of minutes. The data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets can be copied and pasted directly to Topo.ly so one could begin data analysis immediately. Standard Members can create up to 5 maps for free and Plus Members can save unlimited maps.

Apply Filters to Custom View

In just one click on the filter icon, Topo.ly users can immediately identify distinct characteristics on the map. For instance, a Plus Member has his data plotted on hospitals, and another data on small clinics. He also plotted address locations of residents who recently visited hospitals for serious health ailments like high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and others. Once the user clicked the filter icon, the labels will be shows all at the same time. Doing this can give him exceptional data visualization to help him enhance his analysis further.

Add Multiple Data Sets

The role of a map is not only to provide address locations. More than that, it offers the user the power of analysis in just a glance. This can be done when different data sets are plotted together and placed in one map. When this happens, a user can easily understand what each identifier really shows. It also helps him identify the connections between each data set.

Customize Icons

Another way to allow users to have exceptional mapping experience is through customizing icons. Icons with the same colors and shapes that are assigned to different data layers can be little or no help visualizing data. Hence, Topo.ly makes it possible for its Plus Members to customize markers. A user can change how the markers appear to represent each data set effectively. They can instantly change the markers’ colors, shapes and sizes. Users are also allowed to upload any .jpg or .png files from their computers and make them their markers. Overall, customizing markers definitely adds impact!

When Topo.y is used, organizations will be more than ready to participate in a meaningful celebration and observance that could mean our own health and lives.