
Report viewers can use map controls to interact with the map. Here's a filled area map showing median house prices by U.S. Average arrival delay is shown using bubble color. Number of flights is shown using bubble size.

Here's a bubble map showing airline arrivals in California. For filled area maps, metric value is communicated using color. For bubble maps, you can use bubble size, bubble color, or both to communicate metric value. For example, using Country as the location dimension displays a bubble or a filled area for each country in your data. You provide a geographic dimension that determines where the data appears. The data layer displays your data as bubbles or as filled areas.

For example, you can change the default map view to satellite view, apply different themes, and adjust the degree of detail of roads, landmarks, and labels shown. You can customize the background layer in many ways.

The data layer plots your data on top of the background layer. The background layer is the familiar Google Map interface. Google Maps in Data Studio consist of two layers.

Adding Google Maps to your reports gives your viewers a familiar interactive environment in which to explore geographic data.
