topic Map visualization stopped working in Developer

Map visualization stopped working

PowerBiFun — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:59:44 GMT

Our company dashboard published on powerbi.com, with a map visualization, has been working great till last Friday. All of sudden the map visualization on the dasbhoard stopped working. When I checked the report on Power BI Destop, the map visualization still worked fine, but not online at powerbi.com. I tried a few things, like republishing the report to powerbi.com, recreating the map visualization, changed the way how the columns are categorized or not categorized, and so on. But no luck.

Does anyone know what changes have been made to powerbi.com? Any fixes? I have tried the tricks suggested by others back in the middle of this year. But it didn't work:(

The timing of the problem was really bad because we were demoing the feature to stake holders, trying to convince them to use PowerBI instead of other BI tools.

Thanks!

Re: Map visualization stopped working

Eric_Zhang — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 02:06:55 GMT

@PowerBiFun

There're changes in Power BI Service and Desktop. Currently there's a known issue for the Map visuals using Lat/Long in text type.

The product team hardened code around the Bing Maps control. The Map Control code is downloaded live every time you open a report page that contains a map, and recent changes by Bing started throwing exceptions if we passed a non-numeric Lat/Long value. We now check the column metadata and require it to be numeric. A few customers have complained that their maps stopped working recently, and we have decided to relax the constraints a bit. However, due to holiday deployment lock-down, the web won’t be fixed until early January and

If this is the case, as a workaround, please change the Lat/Long to numeric type and republish.

By the way, as to "work in desktop", I guess you may not use the latest Power BI desktop?

Re: Map visualization stopped working

PowerBiFun — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:22:51 GMT

Thank you @Eric_Zhang! This is exactly the cause of the problem. After I changed the longitude and latitude to decimal, it started working again.

The version of my Power BI Desktop is 2.52.4921.682 64-bit (November, 2017).

Are there any way that I can receive notification for this kind of changes in the future?

Thanks,

Re: Map visualization stopped working

Msong4u — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:13:05 GMT

How do you change the longitude and latitude? Can you please be specific? Step by Step is what is needed here.

Re: Map visualization stopped working

Msong4u — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:16:20 GMT

I see the latitude and longitude fields but they are not editable for me. Nothing happens when I click into them and what would I do specifically if I could?