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mjfulke
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Create Your Own Custom Map for Power BI

Hi, I’m sharing back with community here (I encourage you to do the same as you come across your own useful Power BI tips and recipes)   In this post, I will share how to create a custom map file t...
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MPG758
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Hi Everyone!

 

I tried mjfulke method to create a power bi map for Portugal (only the continent for now), but when i import the resulting map into power bi, i noticed that our district reegions were not able to be rendered in power bi desktop witch was a major disapointment :( .

Is there something else i have to do in order to be able to have the regions available in the continent to assign data specific to each district/region, with this method you explained ?

 

Thank you! :)

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cs_skit
Resolver IV
9 years ago

The regions have to be part of the shape data itself to be available.

They should be available though for all major countries.

 

Theres also some strange bug you can encounter when importing regions that needs fixing via mapshaper command line. Just google the bug and "mapshaper command line" there was a tutorial somewhere how to do it.

Don't remember the bug anymore but I encountered it when importing german postal code area data: