topic Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues in Custom Visuals Development Discussion

Drilldown Choropleth issues

mike_honey — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 02:17:19 GMT

The Drilldown Choropleth is a useful Custom Visual, published by Microsoft. But after using it on a few projects I've realised it has a few issues or areas for improvement. I've reported those on it's github issues list (link below), and others have added issues they've noticed.

Are there any plans by Microsoft to continue development of this visual?

https://github.com/Microsoft/powerbi-visuals-drilldown-choropleth/issues

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

v-viig — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:04:02 GMT

The developer of this custom visual will consider all of issues and suggestions on GitHub.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

mike_honey — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:13:39 GMT

Do you mean Microsoft? Or Gramener?

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

v-viig — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:31:03 GMT

Gramener developed this CV for Microsoft and currenty it supports this CV.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

dcresp — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 17:14:34 GMT

Is there any plans for the updated of this custom visual to be released. It is a good visual that could be great if the ideas on Git were added to it.

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

v-viig — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:08:29 GMT

We hope all of ideas will be considered by developer (owner) of this custom visual.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

dcresp — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 06:06:26 GMT

The indication seems to be that the developer of this visual has no interest in further developing this visual. This is a real pity as mapping is something that Power BI really needs more capability in. This visual is currently the best way to deal with Chloropleth mapping which is essential but it needs more development to make it really work to a production level.

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

v-viig — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 06:48:11 GMT

Mapbox custom visual is going to support Choropleth soon.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

dcresp — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 07:19:42 GMT

The Mapbox solution is not an option for us as it would involve significant fees as most of our work is in Power BI Embedded. The drill down Chicklet slicer has significant potential to work the way that we want but needs some further work.

We work with Esri and if they put more development effort into their visual has significant potential. However, at the moment it works with Australian geographies that are two years out of date, is slow and can not be used for Power BI Embedded to be able to show our Esri map layers. This could be a good solution for us but seems to get very limited development focus.

Mapping is something that we desperately need in Power BI but to date, all the potential solutions are falling short.

Re: Drilldown Choropleth issues

v-viig — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:48:49 GMT

As of now, we would recommend to create an issue at the repo for further consideration.

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com