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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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stellar100
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

Hi, thanks for the good article. I have issues finding the "add map" button in my visual. After I select the Shape Map visual, under the format tab, I don't see that option. Any idea?

 

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mjfulke
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

You have to add at leat one data field onto the fields tab and then it should show up in the format tab.   It could be more intuitive...

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    MattEnvSys
    New Member
    8 years ago

    Hey, I'm new to PowerBI and I found this very helpful!

     

    Is there a way to add a basemap to the shape map as well? Preferably some satellite data that we have analysed ourselves.

     

    Thanks

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      mjfulke
      Microsoft Employee
      8 years ago

      Adding images is not supported with TopoJson.  I would look at Bing, ESRI, or MapBox to include satellite views.