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ArcGIS Maps for Power BI (Preview) Discussion
Helper IHey DuncanP -
No worries. I think it's all related (regarding the mismatches). Our underlying service used to give error codes for unmatched addresses, which client applications could filter out or handle differently at their discretion. Now the backend service attempts to find a match no matter what - resulting in some undesireable matches. We're working with the team responsible for this behavior to get it modified, and then we'll update our code in turn. It won't get fixed overnight, but rest assured we're working on it.
Regarding the bisected districts and weird shapes you might be seeing - in order to keep the speed high, we are 'generalizing' the shapes - that's to say, we're making the shapes a lot simpler than they really are in order to transmit them across the wires quickly. It's a balancing act - we want them to be simple enough that they are fast, but we don't want them so simple that they lose the ability to represent the thing they're supposed to represent. Please let me know if it's erring too much towards the latter and we can take a look at tweaking it a bit.
I'm really happy to hear that despite some hiccups you're enjoying the visual!
Advocate IVWe are really keen on this as a mapping tool within Power BI and think it is alreaydy great and has a lot more potenital. The potential for us as large users for Esri products will be being able to login and use our own mapping hosted securely on the Esri server to be able to add into the Esri Power BI map and then share with external users in a secure way. The other key item that we need is to know if this visual will work with Power BI Embeded. scottball are you able to give us any guide as to when we will be able to get to our secured mapping and share that with others. Also I have not seen an answer about if this will work with PBIE.
Thank you for your assistance and please keep working on this great addition to PBI.
DuncanP dcresp Overnight we updated the map to fix the not loading issue. Please try to load the maps that previously did not work and let me know if you encounter any issues.
dcresp regarding Power BI Embedded, we definitely plan to bring ArcGIS Maps for Power BI to Power BI Embedded, we're working on the architecture for that right now. Regarding using content from ArcGIS servers, we are planning in collaboration with Esri to enable sign-in to ArcGIS Online. In fact, these two items are intertwined from an architecture viewpoint which is why we've not yet enabled ArcGIS Maps for Power BI in Power BI Embedded.
Hi Anonymous, has there been any update on the availability of ArcGIS maps for Power BI Embedded? We've been eagerly anticipating this for quite some time!
I'm glad there is a plan to offer ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. We are excited by what we see in the desktop version!
A couple of questions:
- Is there a timeline for deployment? Rough estimate?
- Will this continue to be free?
Answers to these could make a big difference to our development plans.
Note that we don't expect to be using content from ArcGIS servers. Just thought I'd add my data point.
However, if there was a way to export from PBIE to a format that ArcGIS desktop users would prefer, that would also be exciting, althought not required by us.
We're not ready to comment on that :). Glad you like ArcGIS Maps for Power BI, we're really excited by it too :).
