Dashboard Configuration: Plotting geographic information

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Geographic data settings

Geolocated information are plotted on map as graphical markers. Markers can be defined as:

   A quadruplet: Title, Latitude, Longitude, Marker Class
   A sextuplet: Title, Address, Post code, City, Region Code, Marker Class 

Information fields have following specification:

   Title: Textual label of the marker
   Latitude: floating point latitude
   Longitude: floating point longitude
   Address: road information
   Post code: Official post or zip code
   City: City name
   Marker Class: A classname, that will bind to a graphical icon 

Setting fields let you bind required information to request output fields. Setting outputs will usually accept one or more field (or alias) names separated by semicolons (";").

   Title input: Query output fieldname providing the textual label
   Location input:
       Case 1: THE output column name providing the geolocation couple as a comma pair of floating point values : "lat,lng" (ex : 47.098456,1.4534456)
       Case 2: A semicolon separated list of query output fieldnames (or aliases) that provide in order : address, post code, city, and region code (*) 
   Marker type input: The query output fieldname that provides a class label 

(*) Some constant values can be given for city, post code and region code, using quoted values in place of field name:

 address;cp;city;"GB"

will always provide the value "GB" as region code.