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Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:25:47 GMT

This report contains a number of example maps that can be created using the Icon Map custom visual.

These examples have been built using the latest version of Icon Map being released in September 2019 in the Custom Visuals Marketplace.

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Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

tsql_simon — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:46:14 GMT

Hi;

Great Job looks fantastic. Will it support layering of points on top of polygons?

Kindest Regards

Simon Richardson

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:56:42 GMT

Hi tsql_simon

Yes - You'll be able to layer points on top of polygons :-)

James

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

mike_honey — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 08:52:23 GMT

Looks awesome - cant wait! Any chance you can sling me the .pbiviz for an early look?

Choropleth with drill down and mixing point layers will be my main interest. If I interpreted your previous post correctly, SQL is not a requirement, just a column of text data in their WKT format? Will that be limited in length?

Will/does it support Mapbox tilesets for choropleth layers?

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

OpenDataLab — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:08:12 GMT

Great visual James,

Can you let me know, if you want to use a custom set of tiles from mapbox, what are the requirements. What is the strucuture of the URI that you need to pass in. e.g. https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/company/xyz.

I've tried various different formats for the URL and can't seem to get any to work, I just get back a blank visual.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:26:21 GMT

Hi OpenDataLab

If you get a copy of the style URL from Mapbox Studio it should look something along the lines of:

mapbox://styles/[Account Name]/[Style ID]

To get this to work in Icon Map translate the Account Name and Style ID to the following format, and add in your Mapbox access token at the end.

https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/[Account Name]/[Style ID]/tiles/256/{z}/{x}/{y}?access_token=[Access Token]

That should do the trick.

James

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

rofabbri — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:47:59 GMT

Hello James,

we are very interested in this component but I notice this is a V2.0 instead of 1.0 released in AppSource (

https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA104381497)

When do you plan to release this version 2.0 on AppSource?

Thanks a lot

Roberto Fabbri

Senior Project Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfabbri8080/

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

RyanBentham — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:05:22 GMT

Hi jamesdales

Just wondering if there are plans to release v2 to the marketplace? or if not, if there's any way to get a download link to the WIP pbiviz version?

Thanks

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:34:12 GMT

Hi James, Well done!

I am implementing a solution with the WKT option, however, the current version available on the Market Place is the 1.0 and the one you have in the Pbix is 2.0. Any ideia of how I can download the 2.0 or must updated version?

Thanks and Regards,

Juliana Clemente

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:35:15 GMT

Unfortunately I haven't yet been able to release a final version to the store. However the beta version is available to download here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjtMfPSzMLYihd8SLspvlky33OaFvw?e=KfBWhn

Hope this helps in the meantime.

Thanks

James

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:40:54 GMT

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!

I will try the link!

Regards,

Juliana Clemente

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

abhagchandani — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:45:04 GMT

Hi James,

I am trying to draw multiple layers of polygon (with drill down functionality) and want to place markers .

How do I implement using your beta version. Please share some insight.

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:37:19 GMT

Hi jamesdales,

Great work, I love it!!!

I would like to know how you did the revealt trick (Map with Reveal), when you select a point in the map appears the other graph, it is great.

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

richardG — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:13:00 GMT

hi James

i was wondering if you had any ideas when v2 may come out? im keen to try out your WKT option but the beta you linked to didnt work for me (PBIX was corrupted for me)

any ideas on your current plans would be great so i know when i could have a play and see if it does what i need?

many thanks

Richard

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:26:32 GMT

Hi Richard

The link here should work: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjtMfPSzMLYihd8SLspvlky33OaFvw?e=KfBWhn but it's a custom viz file, rather than a pbix, so you'll need to add it into an already open report.

I'm resolving some issues that have come out of the beta testing. Once those are resolved, I will release it to the marketplace.

Cheers

James

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:29:23 GMT

Hi Edwardo

The map has a feature called reveal. What is does is move the bottom of the map upwards when you select something on the map, revealing what's underneath, which can be any other Power BI visuals. It uses Power BI's inbuilt cross highlighting functionaity to filter the visuals underneath to show information related to what you've selected on the map.

There is a little more information here: https://powerbi.jamesdales.com/how-to-use-icon-map/

James

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

richardG — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:30:27 GMT

Thanks James! my BI nievety there 😉 . thanks for pointing out so quickly as a response, much appreciated!

i'll go play!

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:21:14 GMT

Hi James,

Thanks a lot for your information, also I want to ask you if you have a method or a threshold to define the numbers of coordinates necessary to create the polygon. I mean, for an specific area why to use 100 geographical coordinatesand not 1000.

Thanks in advance jamesdales

Eduardo

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

jamesdales — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:23:17 GMT

Hi Edwardo

I would always suggest to use the minimum amount of coordinates possible, as the fewer you use, the faster performance will be. There will always be a compromise between showing enough detail vs speed. It's the same with the Power BI shape map.

Also you'll hit the maximum length of a field in PowerQuery which is 32,766 characters, so beyond that you'll need to split the WKT shapes and then concatenate them using DAX in the data model.

James

Re: Icon Map custom visual examples

Nicolas28 — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:16:16 GMT

Hello James,

       Is there a maximum number of points to graph the icons, that is, the number of rows has a limit?

Thank you so much jamesdales 
Regards,
Nicolas