# Tilemap - Geolocation doesn't represent all points

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tilemap-geolocation-doesnt-represent-all-points/86176>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tilemap-geolocation-doesnt-represent-all-points/86176 "2017-05-17T21:58:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![seth.yes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/seth.yes/32/11788_2.png) [@seth.yes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seth.yes)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tilemap-geolocation-doesnt-represent-all-points/86176/1 "2017-05-17T21:58:11Z")

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When I render a tilemap with geolocation in Kibana 5.4.0, the popular areas outweigh the unpopular areas so much that the unpopular areas are not rendered by Kibana.

####Example: With no Geofilter, you can see that NY is very popular

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/4/640f321145dfd8f04a581cb877c5c8fb7d12728e.png)

#### Yet if I apply a geofilter (seen in red), the unpopular areas are then visible.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/5/3543c524a662e06c6ba7265bee5fa03c443630a5.png)

#### What I've Tried:

- Appliy different Map Types in the options, yet none of them have displayed the less-popular areas.
- set `metrics:max_buckets: 20000000`in 'advanced objects' to allow the datasource to return more data

Anything I can do to make this Tilemap more representative of my data?

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tilemap-geolocation-doesnt-represent-all-points/86176/2 "2017-05-19T21:27:43Z")

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There aren't many dials we can turn to tune this at the moment. Have you tried the scaled circles type? It might display the data better.

@thomasneirynck let us know if you have any other ideas.

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tilemap-geolocation-doesnt-represent-all-points/86176/3 "2017-05-23T19:45:10Z")

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yes, we don't have extra options for the heatmap.

there's an outstanding feature request to simplify the heatmap controls. Right now, they are not very intuitive or easy to use: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/11759](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/11759)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tilemap-geolocation-doesnt-represent-all-points/86176/4 "2017-06-20T19:45:22Z")

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