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AR_GS
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ArcGIS map not showing points in a global map

I am trying to map points of different locations around the world, however when I change my location type in the visualization to points in many countries, it switches the location type in the settings to United States. What happens is that it maps "Amsterdam" as a place in New York state, instead of Amsterdam, NL. If I switch the location type in the settings back to World, it changes the visualization to be boundaries and highlights an entire country instead. 

 

Does anyone have an idea on how I can fix this?

 

For info:

My data comes from a MS Form that is loaded into a SharePoint list using Power Automate, then the data is fetched into PowerBI and loaded into a table.

 

Thank you!

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v-kkf-msft
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Hi @AR_GS ,

 

Please check if these documents are helpful.

 

Specify the location type 

https://doc.arcgis.com/en/power-bi/get-started/prepare-your-data.htm 

 

Best Regards,
Winniz

Hi,

 

I read through the linked documents, however the problem still persists. For example, "Bergen, Norway" redirects to a "Bergen Infectious disease office" in New Jersey, and Vancouver, Canada redirects to a town in Kentucky. I added in a column for Country and one for City and concatenated them for use in the Location well.

Hi @AR_GS ,

I'm not sure if you have the same problem as I did, but I found that renaming the field used in Location to "Country" (just in the ARC GIS map visualization) resolved this.  Strange that this wasn't documented more clearly.

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