Adding Specific Data Labels To an Azure Maps Visual

Hi Donerandparmo1​,

As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution I have provided for the issue worked?  or let us know if you need any further assistance.

Thanks and regards,
Anjan Kumar Chippa

Hi Donerandparmo1​,

I think the main issue here is that Azure Maps doesn't give you much control over the labels shown next to individual points.

Since you already have the project name along with the latitude and longitude, I'd first check whether you can use the project name as the category/legend field and enable the available data label options. The problem is that Azure Maps doesn't really have a simple option to say "use this column as the label for every point".

If you don't specifically need Azure Maps, a scatter chart might be a better fit for this.

You could set it up something like:

X-axis = Longitude
Y-axis = Latitude
Details = Project Name
Data labels = Project Name

That way the latitude and longitude are still used to position the points, but the project name can be displayed instead of the coordinates.

For example:

Project Name | Latitude | Longitude
Construction Pack 1 | 51.xxxx | -0.xxxx
Construction Pack 2 | 51.xxxx | -0.xxxx
Construction Pack 3 | 51.xxxx | -0.xxxx

The other advantage of the scatter chart is that you're not relying on Power BI to interpret the location as a city or address. Your coordinates are used directly.

If keeping the map background is important, though, I'd probably stay with Azure Maps and see whether the current visual gives you the label option you need. If it doesn't, Deneb would be another option, although that would take a bit more work to build.

So if the only requirement is basically "show Construction Pack 1 instead of 54.XXXX, -1.XXXX next to each point", I'd look at the scatter chart first. It should be much easier to control the labels there.

I have added some image URLs to replace the Markers, and intend to just type the Project into each image manually, however, some of these images (those from SharePoint) are showing the above error (the small red triangle containing an "!").

Any ideas?

Cheers