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Spatial analysis in Power BI using shapefile
I know how to use shapefiles to create custom shape maps visualisations in Power BI, but it it possible to use a shapefile for data prep?
If I have a list of locations (addresses, postcodes or lat, long) can I lookup which area they are within based on a shapefile? The shapefile would contain closed, non-overlapping polygons.
Many thanks,
Mark.
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Anonymous
You can do spatial analysis if you connect to Esri ArcGIS or MapBox.
I think you need a license for both.
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-esri-arcgis/
Otherwise you can use QGIS which is completely free.
