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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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hdunn
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Thanks for posting this.

I am able to upload my data into the shape map. 

My issue is that my data was converted with over 500 polygons and it covers the whole Australia. It hangs the whole report while refreshing the map.

I think this could be caused by the size of the map.

Is there size limitation for a customised map, particularly for long road or large polygons with many vertex?

Helen

 

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Capstone
Resolver I
9 years ago

I believe so as well as Im having the same problem for the last few days. My file sizes are around 25MB and power BI doesnt like it. I imported the statistical areas map of Australia and though it imports fine, you cant do much with it as it freezes and crashes. Hope they fix it.

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    hdunn
    Frequent Visitor
    9 years ago

    I initially tried Esri Map option. It generalised so much that you couldn't even recognise the area. 

     

    Wonder if anyone has used both maps successfully on the REAL spatial data, not just simple point data.

     

    I contacted Esri support, and was told that this product is not supported by Esri and advised to contact MS. I don't know who to contact in Microsoft to discuss both maps. Anyone has idea?

     

    I recommand there should a special discussion community of using maps.

     

    Helen