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cwayne758
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10 years ago
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Incorrect map location

Hello,   The Map visual seems to be plotting some of my locations incorrectly (see attached).     Example of data; Florida, United States, 32217  
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  • asocorro's avatar
    asocorro
    10 years ago

    cwayne758 It seems the state is confusing the mapping.  Look at how I got it to work:

     

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jschwabish
Regular Visitor
10 years ago

I'm having a similar problem for city names. It's putting Las Vegas in Spain, not Nevada.

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    asocorro
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    10 years ago

    Try to provide more info in the column.  For example, "Las Vegas, Nevada" or "Las Vegas, Nevada, USA".  And categorize the column as City.

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      asocorro
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      10 years ago

      cwayne758 It seems the state is confusing the mapping.  Look at how I got it to work:

       

      • MPL's avatar
        MPL
        Regular Visitor
        8 years ago

        I am not getting the following two cities to map correctly:

        Springfield, Missouri, USA

        Columbia, Missouri, USA

         

        Regardless if I combine city, state, and country into a single field and categorize it as City, or have separate fields with their own respective categories, the locations are not being mapped correctly.

         

        When combining them into a single field neither one shows up on the map.  Separate fields places Springfield in Illinois and Columbia in South Carolina.

         

        After further testing, I was able to get the two cities to map correctly when combining city, state and country into a single field as shown above and setting the category to either Place or Continent.  Neither seems appropriate, but they worked.