ArcGIS Maps for Power BI (Preview) Discussion

Hi all, would ArcGis be available on PowerBI Desktop and if so how to get it? thanks. Qui

The ArcMaps Visual has a lot of potential but at the moment it is a little disapointing and still has a number of issues. Here are my major issue with it at this stage.

Not being able to add any Tooltips in limiting compared to using the standard maps.

The Tooltips that do come up do not extend past the Visual window as they do on standard maps. This means that a lot of my Tooltips can not be read by the user. This is a major negative for me.

When selecting colour and size map theme and adjusting the colour in the Symbol Styles the colours seem to get confused at times and there are a lot more colours coming up than there should be.

When using the Select Multiple Locations tool on the map my existing visuals show an error and state - Condn't load the data for this visual - We couldn't display the visual because a measure is used in cross highlighting. Please remove the measure or cross highlight.

I assume that this is somthing that I have done in correctly but not sure what. Any assistance with this would be apreciated.

Also it would be great if we could use maps that we have created in Arc as the reference layer maps.

I think this Visual has huge potential but it is not there yet and at this stage I am choosing to continue to use the existing mapping Visuals despite being excited when this was anounced.

Hopefully they will iron some of these issues out as the tool progresses through the preciew phase. Certainly lots of potential.

Regards

David

Suggestions for improvements:

1. Retain zoom level when cross-filtering from another chart. 
2. Add tooltips.
3. Allow customization of color schemes for dots. 
4. Free-draw/polygon select (in addition to box-select that is there now).
5. Up the limit for displaying non-lat/long locations--1500 isn't near enough. 

Looks like exciting stuff!   I'm not seeing ArcGIS in my Preview Features options - is this being rolled out to users in any particular order?

Pretty cool! Looking forward to this. Assuming this would be for the release on October?

One other item that seems to be missing is that there does not seem to be any way to do a map legend. Am I missing somthing?

In terms of the shape map visual this is a very useful tool but the limiting factor is that there is not the option to be able to project this custom polygons over a map. Hopefully the Arc map visual will be able to address this.

The ArcGIS Maps has me very excited for all the different ways that we can use it.

I can't wait to see this visual progress from preview into a full launch. To echo something that was said before me, I think a legend should be an option to be included on the visual.

scottball a couple of quick questions about what data goes where

1) Are the ESRI servers all in the US?

2) What gets sent from PBI to ESRI? Is it just the geocoding data or is there other data for the visual sent?

3) What gets send to PBI from ESRI? Is it just the map and geocoded location?

I have a very data sovereignty sensitive customer on my hands...

Cheers, James

Hi

I've just got hold of a data set that includes plenty of UK postcode data, so I've broken it down into area, district and sector to start mapping it. So far it looks really impressive, except for a couple of weird anomolies.

One strange issue is when using currency data as the value in size or color on the map. You can see how the formatting is corrupted in some way. The measure is a fixed decimal formatted as currency (£ English) with comma separation and 2 decimal places.

I've also noticed that when using postcode areas, some are mapped in the wrong place. They are:

CF (Cardiff) - mapped as CB (Cambridge)

IM (Isle of Man) - mapped as CM (Chelmsford)

ST (Stoke on Trent) - mapped as AL (St Albans)

OL (Oldham) - also mapped as AL (St Albans)

WF (Wakefield) - mapped as WD (Watford)

Finally, it appears that incorrect postcode districts are sometimes mapped to real ones, which led to some considerable confusion on my part. So BR29 (which doesn't exist) was mapped over BS29, with the colour coming from the data corresponding to one district while the tooltip showed the data from the other. That led to me thinking that the colouring was messed up until I worked out what was going on! (Don't worry, I will fix my data ;))

Other than that though, this is pretty amazing from what I've seen so far - so thank you!

Cheers,

Duncan

I am also liking these new ArcGIS features.

Is it possible to specify locations using different coordinate systems than lat and long? Some of the data I am using for evaluation has poor quality address information but has an X,Y on offer to me.