@@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ In Metabase, an answer to a question can be visualized in a number of ways:
* Maps
A few notes on the map options:
***States Map** — Creating a map of the United States from your database requires your results to contain a column field with states. GeoJSON is the default output format.
***Country Map** — To visualize your results in the format of a map of the world broken out by country, your result must contain a column that contains countries. The default output format is GeoJSON.
***Pin Map** — To generate a pin map, your Metabase administrator needs to configure a Google Maps API key, and your data set needs to contain a marked latitude and longitude column.
To change how the answer to your question is displayed, click on the Visualization dropdown menu beneath the question builder bar.
***States Map** — Creating a map of the United States from your database requires your results to contain a column field with states. GeoJSON is the default output format.
***Country Map** — To visualize your results in the format of a map of the world broken out by country, your result must contain a column that contains countries. The default output format is GeoJSON.
***Pin Map** — To generate a pin map, your dataset needs to contain a marked latitude and longitude column.
To change how the answer to your question is displayed, click on the Visualization dropdown menu beneath the question builder bar.

If a particular visualization doesn’t really make sense for your answer, the format option will appear faded in the dropdown menu.
If a particular visualization doesn’t really make sense for your answer, the format option will appear faded in the dropdown menu.
Once a question is answered, you can save or download the answer, or add it to a dashboard.