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Colombia map
I've been having problems with Colombia's filled map, trying to draw the states/provinces. I'm trying adding the whole name of the country and with the 3 letters abreviation, it stills draw some states in other countries:
Amazonas, Colombia or Amazonas, COL goes to Brazil or Perú, or simply does not show
Bolívar, Colombia or Bolívar, COL goes to Venezuela or Paraguay
Córdoba, Colombia or Córdoba, COL goes to Argentina
Nariño, Colombia or Nariño, COL does not show and it says that needs more location data.
Its really frustrating this kind of problems, I'm only using Colombia information, with the states in a column, the name of the country in otrher, a merged column separeted by a comma or space...
Please, someboy help!!
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Hi, I do it in a simple way, adding the words ",Colombia" after department name for example "Chocó, Colombia", and adding lat and long and department code. Woks for me for filled and simple maps. Hope it works for you. This are the image of the table and map. I can share the file if you need it. Regards Jose
regards
Hi Jose,
Could you please share the file with me.
Regards,
Geovanny Vergara
Hi,
For my work I must show regional unified data defined by the company. how you could join the departments that make up those regions and that PW_BI interprets it. thanks
Very useful your file, a question, why the last three rows in "Unknown"?
Hi Jorge, this two last codes are unknown because there are agregated departments for my exercise I don't want to shape, you shouldn´t take it in to account.
For the regional unified data defined by the company, what would be the regional regional disaggregation (city, municipality?) depends on that.
Puedes compartirme el archivo ?
I have been working on this problem, I could fix it adding the word "Departmento del "+ <department's name>, example: DEPARTAMETO DEL AMAZONAS. This was my solution for Colombian map, if you need it to fix it at perubian map the answer is add "Departamento de" ...
Hi, I've been having problems with Colombia's Filled map, PowerBI does not recognized some states:
Amazonas, Colombia or Amazonas, COL
Bolívar, Colombia or Bolívar, COL
Nariño, Colombia or Nariño, COL
Córdoba, Colombia or Córdoba, COL
Guainía, Colombia or Guainía, COL
Sometimes it draws them in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, USA, Perú or Paraguay. Sometimes it say that it requires more location data. I'm trying with the full name of the country, with the abreviation (COL), merging it with a comma, with space... anything has worked.
It's very frustrating this situation.
Hi fhgomezn,
You can add a calculated column with the formula below. But I made a little change of Guainía. If I change it to Guainia, it will show correctly in the map. I searched the Bing map and Google map. I see both of the two names in both of the maps. I don't know if this is correct. You can check it out in this file.
Column = IF ( [Department] = "Guainía", "Colombia Guainia", "Colombia " & [Department] )
Best Regards,
Dale
thanks v-jiascu-msft
Do you know why this column transformation and choosing "place" in "data category" option does not work for Colombia Amazonas? That's the last state (frontier wiht Brazil and Perú) and it shows a blank spot there.
If I choose "state/province" in "data category" with this new column, it place Colombia Amazonas in Perú or Brazil (that countries also have a state named Amazonas)...
After trial & error, what worked for me is to postfix " DEPARTMENT" to all department names (mine are in all caps), then for AMAZONAS, it's a special case and only "Amazonas Department Colombia" worked in the end. Bing maps is so hopeless in name lookup. I just wish they make it such that something can consistently work, like ISO code instead of this guessing work which is a huge waste of time.
