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Map visualisation
Map visualisation
Hello,
Where can I find the list of countries used by the Map visualisation?
Thanks
Hi Fabiann ,
Yes you are right. Looking at the map bahaviour, I would suggest changing United States of America to USA.
After doing some more investigation, I found a blog where it refers to a standard link for country names:
Blog: https://blog.ailon.org/how-to-display-2-letter-country-data-on-a-power-bi-map-85fc738497d6
Standard country names & codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
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Thanks,
Pragati
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Hi Fabiann ,
Just wanted to check which map visualisation you are talking about?
Most of the map visuala in Power BI use geographic location based metrics like Latitude, Longitude, Postcode, etc.
So, there is not a list of countries for it. It will visualise any location in the world based on the demographic details you use to create this visualisation.
If this helps and resolves the issue, appreciate a Kudos and mark it as a Solution! 🙂Thanks,PragatiIn the Visualizations pane this is the simple one called "Map". The source of the data has a field called "Country" and nothing else.
However, depending the way you name the country, it appears correctlyt or not.
If you enter "USA" or "U.S.A." versus "United States of America", then it doesn't appear properly.
We have to make sure the entry is "United States of America", so in order to avoid that, we want to offer a drop down list as data entry rather than free text, so we need the full list of country that the visualization "Map" is using.
Hi Fabiann ,
When I click on this visual, I see that it uses - Latitude, Longituge as inputs.
In order to create this visualisation using your data, you atleast need Latitude & Longitude in your data.
Did you try moving "Country" name to Location?
If it works, in that case you will have to correct your data in order to get U.S.A same as USA.
Can you post a screenshot with the map created by you using COUNTRY name?
If this helps and resolves the issue, appreciate a Kudos and mark it as a Solution! 🙂
Thanks,
Pragati
