Free Map Services For Tableau. County shapefiles which are in essence polygons that define the borders of a county. This video will show how to connect to a WMS server via URL how to import and export Tableau Map Source files and how to add map layers to the existing WMS background map NB.
Navigate to the Classic tab give the map a name. Tableau Public is free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web. To use Tableau WMS Server Map as a Background Map Go to the Map select Background Maps and choose Map Services from the drop-down Menu.
Tableau free version provides two types of maps for displaying data.
Tableau maps in my opinion are the coolest visualization type in Tableau. Their map files render more quickly than WMS services found on the Internet. Or from Storybench here. To see related concepts demonstrated in Tableau watch these free training videos.
