How to Show Multiple Tables on the Same Map View in Airtable

Question

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice regarding Map View in Airtable.

We have one table with all the businesses we work with, and another table with all our points of interest. What we’d really like is a single Map View where both datasets appear together, each in a different color (for example: businesses in one color, POIs in another).

Right now, Map View only accepts data from one table. To work around this, we had to create a combined table that contains both businesses and points of interest, with a “Category” field that marks each record so they appear in different colors. This works, but it’s messy and difficult to maintain.

My main questions are:

Is there any way to use another mapping solution inside Airtable Interfaces, something faster or more flexible than the current Map View?
Is it possible for Map View to show records from two different tables, or is merging everything into a single table the only option?

Any recommendations or best practices would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

ScottWorld · Answer

What do you mean by Map view? Are you referring to the Map extension?

The Map extension can only process one table’s records, so your solution to combine records into a combined table is the solution.

But there is a much easier way of combining your tables together than what you’re currently doing.

You can simply sync both of your tables out to the same table in another base. In that other base, you would have ONE unified table that acts as the ”destination table” for your multiple syncs.

Hope this helps! If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

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