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Anonymous
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9 years ago

ArcGIS wrong location using Parishes id

Hi,

 

I'm trying to represent location as Boundaries selecting "Portugal" as country in the arcgis options. I'm using Parishes id's as Location type. I found a lot of issues.. examples of id's:

 

111609

111415

110921

110919

(....) a lot

 

any solution? because, if I use parishes names, the map can't find a lot of them correctly.

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    Hi,

     

    I'm trying to represent location as Boundaries selecting "Portugal" as country in the arcgis options. I'm using Parishes id's as Location type. I found a lot of issues.. examples of id's:

     

    111609

    111415

    110921

    110919

    (....) a lot

     

    any solution? because, if I use parishes names, the map can't find a lot of them correctly.

     

  • Eric_Zhang's avatar
    Eric_Zhang
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    Anonymous

    Could you please upload the pbix to help test? You can save it in a network drive like Onedrive and share the link.

     

    By the way, ArcGIS is provided by esri, you could try to contact it for straightforward support.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      Hi Eric_Zhang,

       

      A sample: goo.gl/QrK0DJ

       

      If you choose "Lisboa" you will see that some parishes are wrong. Is better open a ticket in esri support?

      • Eric_Zhang's avatar
        Eric_Zhang
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        Anonymous wrote:

        Hi Eric_Zhang,

         

        A sample: goo.gl/QrK0DJ

         

        If you choose "Lisboa" you will see that some parishes are wrong. Is better open a ticket in esri support?


        I don't have access to this sample.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      Eric_Zhang, as Scott Ball said in this article ( https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2016/10/11/5-common-questions-about-arcgis-maps-for-power-bi/ ), 

       

      • "We have some ‘fuzzy search’ capabilities that give some flexibility that allows our backend to provide results even when a user doesn’t match the location name we have exactly. This is especially useful when the place name has diacritical marks but the user dataset does not contain diacriticals – it allows users to get results without exact matches."
      • "Fuzzy search is a problem, however, whenever you have exact ID’s such as ZIP or postal codes. 92373 is very close to 92374, but you would never want to return the geometry info for 92374 if you want to map 92373. Our fix looks at the data model, and if the user has marked a data field in Power BI as a ‘Postal Code’ field, we turn off fuzzy search when that field is mapped. Only exact matches will be returned. It will involve a little extra effort on your part, but the results will be much better."

       

      I suppose this is the problem I'm facing with my parishes id's. He said that "the patch was delivered along with a slew of other bug fixes and enhancements to Microsoft this weekend and should be rolling out in the coming weeks"

       

      I will wait this patch to see if the problem is gone.

       

      • Eric_Zhang's avatar
        Eric_Zhang
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        Anonymous wrote:

        Eric_Zhang, as Scott Ball said in this article ( https://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2016/10/11/5-common-questions-about-arcgis-maps-for-power-bi/ ), 

         

        • "We have some ‘fuzzy search’ capabilities that give some flexibility that allows our backend to provide results even when a user doesn’t match the location name we have exactly. This is especially useful when the place name has diacritical marks but the user dataset does not contain diacriticals – it allows users to get results without exact matches."
        • "Fuzzy search is a problem, however, whenever you have exact ID’s such as ZIP or postal codes. 92373 is very close to 92374, but you would never want to return the geometry info for 92374 if you want to map 92373. Our fix looks at the data model, and if the user has marked a data field in Power BI as a ‘Postal Code’ field, we turn off fuzzy search when that field is mapped. Only exact matches will be returned. It will involve a little extra effort on your part, but the results will be much better."

         

        I suppose this is the problem I'm facing with my parishes id's. He said that "the patch was delivered along with a slew of other bug fixes and enhancements to Microsoft this weekend and should be rolling out in the coming weeks"

         

        I will wait this patch to see if the problem is gone.

         


        Kindly share your finding. :) 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    I've been talking with the ArcGIS team, take a look: