Datasets or Layers in CartoDB can be merged by similar columns (attribute fields) or by Spatial relationship.
Click this link and download Sample geodata - Grazing Spots, West Africa
Login into CartoDB. Click on New map and CONNECT DATASET. Download the sample geodata- a Point feature shapefile and a polygon feature shapefile.
Click on DATA FILE and scroll down to UPLOAD FROM FILE. Start with the polygon feature layer.
Once Upload is complete, the layer should appear in MAPVIEW or DATAVIEW. If it appears in DATAVIEW, click the MAPVIEW.
See our example screenshot below.
Click on the + button where the cursor finger is positioned in the screenshot to add the point feature layer.
See screenshot of our demo of the CartoDb MAPVIEW showing the two layers.
Our goal is to spatially join or merge the Points and the Polygon layers into a single layer as we want to merge the points according to the polygons which they fall within or intersect.
Select DATAVIEW to display the attribute table and Click on merge dataset icon (red boxed area in the screenshot below).
Click on Spatial Join since we are merging by the spatial intersection (meaning the topology relationship between the Points and Polygons) and not column.
On the next page we select the datasets to merge. Since the polygon layer is our principal target, the source point feature layer is chosen from the drop down list as shown on the screenshot below.
Select COUNT (red boxed on screenshot below) and click MERGE DATASETS.
A new layer is created from the merge. Open the DATAVIEW and notice the red boxed column where the intersect_count is listed. This list the number of points within each polygon.
To visualize this properly on the map, click on MAPVIEW.
Click on the Map Layer Wizard icon and choose SIMPLE option. Go to Label Text option and choose intersect_count column to label the layer with.
Results are shown on the screenshot below. Each polygon are now labeled with the number of points that intersect it.
Thank you for following our demonstration.
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