Azure reference layer disappears when published to Power BI service?

Something has chnaged since yesterday. All was working well yesterday and no changes have been made to the file or data. We have an Azure reference layer on our maps as below, outline black ...

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Anonymous

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2 years ago

I had the same issue on the Power BI Service.

In the February 2024 update, my reference layer also disappeared on Power BI desktop.

My reference layer was a .geojson file as well.

After renaming the extension of my reference layer from .geojson to .json and importing it back again, the reference layer reappeared.

Try it and see if this resolved the issue for you.

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