Cubit Map Guide
Your custom map is fully interactive. This short guide shows you how to turn layers on and off, color the map by your data, filter it, and read the details — no prep required.
Cubit is a concierge service for demographic data — think of us as the data nerds so you don't have to be. Your map bundles the demographic data and geography you need into one interactive view you can explore in any modern browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox). Nothing to install.
New & improved. Your maps now run on a faster, cleaner interface. If you used an older Cubit map, a few things moved — this guide covers the current look.
Below is a real, working sample map. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a shape or dot for details, and use the panel on the right to toggle layers. Everything in this guide refers to the pieces you see here.
A live Cubit sample map — census tracts colored by median income, with BBQ restaurants, a 5-mile radius, and a center point.
Your map has four main parts. Once you recognize them, you can use any Cubit map.
Turn layers on and off and filter your data. Each layer is a card; some cards hold controls called widgets.
Explains what the colors, dots, and shapes on the map mean.
Zoom in and out, and jump to a city, place, or address.
Click any shape or point to see its underlying data.
The layer panel from the sample map.
Each layer has an eye icon. Click it to hide that layer; click again to show it. A hidden layer dims and its eye shows a slash.
When a layer has controls (widgets) — like the Demographics layer here — it gets a full card, with those controls stacked inside. The small square or dot next to the name tells you the shape type: a square for areas (polygons), a dot for points.
Layers that are just shown on the map — no controls — are tucked into a collapsible Reference layers group to keep things tidy. Each still has its own eye toggle. A layer that starts hidden (like Traffic Estimates) appears dimmed until you switch it on.
Tip: Use the ‹ arrow at the top of the panel to hide it entirely and give the map the full screen. Click it again to bring the panel back.
The color chip: grayscale when off, full color with a blue ring when on.
A color ramp shades every area by a data value — darker for higher, lighter for lower — so patterns jump out at a glance.
Look for the little color chip next to a widget's name (for example, next to Median Income). Click it to color the whole map by that data. Click it again to switch the coloring off and return the layer to a flat, single color.
Only one color ramp is active at a time, and the legend updates to show exactly what each shade means.
A histogram widget with the range narrowed to the middle.
A histogram shows how your data is distributed. Use it to filter the map to just the range you care about.
Drag the two round handles inward to set a low and high limit. The map instantly hides anything outside the range, the bars inside your range stay colored, and the count (“… SELECTED”) updates to show how many features match.
To clear the filter, drag the handles back to the ends.
Example: narrow Median Income to $56k–$180k and the map keeps only the tracts in that income band.
A category widget — click a row to filter to it.
Some maps group data into categories (like county, type, or status) instead of a numeric range.
Click a category to filter the map to only that group; the number beside each row tells you how many features it holds. Click it again to unselect, or use All / None at the top to select or clear everything at once.
A pop-up showing a census tract's data.
Click any shape or point on the map to open a pop-up with its underlying data. If there are more fields than fit, scroll inside the pop-up to see the rest. Close it with the ×.
On some layers, simply hovering over a point shows a quick tooltip — a lightweight preview that disappears when you move away.
Tip: The colored square in the pop-up header matches the feature's color on the map, so you always know what you clicked.
The legend explains every color and marker.
The legend in the bottom-left corner is your key to the map. It names the map, then lists what each color band, dot, and shape represents.
When you turn a color ramp on or off, the legend updates to match — so it always reflects exactly what you're looking at.
If it's in your way, click the caret in its corner to collapse it; click again to expand.
Zoom & search (left); the Viewport / All switch (right).
Use + and − to zoom (or scroll on the map), and drag to pan. The number between them is your current zoom level. The magnifying glass lets you jump to a city, place, or address.
On maps that carry a full data table, a small Viewport / All switch sits at the top of the panel. Viewport counts only what's currently on screen; All counts the entire dataset, no matter where you've zoomed.
Some maps also offer a download button to export the filtered data as a spreadsheet, and a full-screen toggle in the bottom-right corner.
Map acting up? Try these, in order — they fix almost everything:
A simple reload clears most hiccups.
This reloads the map fresh, ignoring any old cached copy. Press Cmd + Shift + R (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + R (Windows).
Your map works in any current browser. If one is misbehaving, open the link in another (Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox).
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