Hi Marco,

As you showed me earlier, when using an outside knowledge source like Factual: I can use the data to get a map so that when I hover over icon I get address, phone # or whatever. (not sure I can do that with Wolfram knowledge base) But here is my main question: How do I copy or export the Map I create to another document so that the icon features are retained, i.e., hovering properties?

Hi James,

this is a useful link to a developers page on Factual. You will see that there is an incredibly detailed list of POIs. This here gives you a useful table:

Import["http://developer.factual.com/working-with-categories/index.html", "Data"][[1, 2, 6, 2 ;;]] // TableForm

On this website you will find (under Geographic Entities) what the Wolfram Language has built in.

Particularly for Factual it can be easy to loose track of what the categories are. The following might help.

searchtree = 
  StringSplit[#, ">"] & /@ 
   Import["http://developer.factual.com/working-with-categories/index.\
html", "Data"][[1, 2, 6, 2 ;;]][[All, 2]];
searchtreeclean = 
  Table[If[StringTake[#, -1] == " ", StringDrop[#, -1], #] & /@ 
    searchtree[[k]], {k, 2, Length[searchtree]}];
GraphPlot[
 DeleteCases[
  Join[(*DeleteDuplicates["Area"\[Rule] #&/@searchtreeclean[[All,
   1]]],*)DeleteDuplicates[
    If[Length[#] > 1, #[[1]] -> #[[2]]] & /@ searchtreeclean], 
   DeleteDuplicates[
    If[Length[#] > 2, #[[2]] -> #[[3]]] & /@ searchtreeclean], 
   DeleteDuplicates[
    If[Length[#] > 3, #[[3]] -> #[[4]]] & /@ searchtreeclean]], Null],
  VertexLabeling -> Tooltip]

I hope that this helps.

Cheers,

Marco

Thanks--that definitely helps and is another path I hadn't thought of (I really like the hovering feature too). I would still like to find a way with GeoGraphics since I want to generalize to other projects I have in mind from there.

Terrific--thanks. I'm new to Wolfram and did not know about Factual. I suppose it is the most convenient way of getting the most up-to-date info on city/country icons such as restaurants, museums, etc., from the Wolfram knowledge data base?