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Custom visual problems in Mapbox
Hi JJ28,
Mapbox in Power BI does have some limitations, especially when it comes to layering custom base maps. A good alternative you might want to look into is the Icon Map custom visual. It offers a lot more flexibility including support for custom tile servers and GeoJSON overlays all while keeping your basemap’s appearance intact. You can host your custom layers (like shapefiles or GeoJSON) on a tile server or through Mapbox Studio, and then point Icon Map to both the basemap and your layered visuals.
Another option worth exploring is Azure Maps, which also allows you to add reference layers using GeoJSON. Just note that you may need to enable preview features for full functionality.
If you'd like, I’d be happy to walk you through setting up Icon Map or help you get your custom layers ready for use. Let me know how you'd like to move forward.
Best Regards,
Hammad.
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Hi and thank you for the reply,
I still haven't found either a solution or a response from the publisher of the visual. I would be happy to find a workaround but I guess it's not an easy task. I need similar kind of functionalities that Mapbox (or why not other map visual as well) provides but I would also need a possibility to add my own custom-layer-visualization which doesn't mess the appearence of the basemap. I guess PowerBI add-in map visualizations doesn't provide me to use my own custom maps and that's why they may not be the solution. So far I'm continuing to use Mapbox (or Azure) visual without my own basemap but that's not my ideal solution.
Hi JJ28,
Mapbox in Power BI does have some limitations, especially when it comes to layering custom base maps. A good alternative you might want to look into is the Icon Map custom visual. It offers a lot more flexibility including support for custom tile servers and GeoJSON overlays all while keeping your basemap’s appearance intact. You can host your custom layers (like shapefiles or GeoJSON) on a tile server or through Mapbox Studio, and then point Icon Map to both the basemap and your layered visuals.
Another option worth exploring is Azure Maps, which also allows you to add reference layers using GeoJSON. Just note that you may need to enable preview features for full functionality.
If you'd like, I’d be happy to walk you through setting up Icon Map or help you get your custom layers ready for use. Let me know how you'd like to move forward.
Best Regards,
Hammad.
Hi and thanks for the reply,
Actually I just also figured out that Azure Maps allows me to use my own reference layers and it seems to work fine! So at this point this solved my problem.
Icon Map would probably also be a great choice but I guess my project needs free-to-use solutions at this point.