Forum Discussion

webportal's avatar
webportal
Icon for Impactful Individual rankImpactful Individual
9 years ago

MAP showing wrong locations

Hello,   When creating a map to show the population of different Portuguese cities, I was careful enough to write the name of the city followed by " - Portugal" in the database to prevent it from s...
Need Help
webportal's avatar
webportal
Icon for Impactful Individual rankImpactful Individual
9 years ago

Hello Yuliana,

 

Thanks, but as you can see here, the map is wrong, even if I add the name of the country, as mentioned in my question.

 

The report was built in Power BI Service so it doesn't have a data category. The data was uploaded from an Excel table.

 

As I mentioned, this map worked perfectly until last week, so this must be related with an upgrade of the service.

v-yulgu-msft's avatar
v-yulgu-msft
Icon for Microsoft Employee rankMicrosoft Employee
9 years ago

Hi webportal,

 

So, this problem that map visual displayed wrong loactions occurred on service, right? It is a known issue confirmed by product team, we have reported internally, and the team is working on this.

 

Regards,
Yuliana Gu

 

 

  • lekkerbek's avatar
    lekkerbek
    Icon for Helper IV rankHelper IV
    9 years ago

    I don't think it's limited to the service. I have the same problem on Power BI Desktop.

     

    Locations were correct in The Netherlands, but now some cities are displayed in Belgium.