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ArcGIS Maps for Power BI (Preview) Discussion
Advocate IVThe 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
Thanks David (@dcresp) for the comments. As Art Haddad said, there's more to come. There are a bunch of things the team is working on and will address in subsequent builds of the visual. So check back frequently. For feature requests, please put them on https://ideas.powerbi.com.
That being said....
For the issue related to cross highlighting, could you start another thread, and include your Power BI Desktop file? We'd like to look into that.
For ArcGIS reference maps: today you can use public layers from ArcGIS Online or layers in Living Atlas. We plan to bring the ability to sign-in to an ArcGIS account, it's on the roadmap, but too early to talk timelines. Vote for this idea to be updated once this capability is available.