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bwalker42
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1 year ago
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Displaying labels on an Azure Map visual in Power BI

Hello everyone,   I have been trying to solve this for the last several days, without success. I created a map of Illinois with unique addresses as dots on the map (using Azure Map).  I'm using ...
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  • kushanNa's avatar
    kushanNa
    1 year ago

    hi bwalker42 

     

    I’ve added a transparent button on top of the map visual so that no one can interact with it directly. As I mentioned, there’s a limitation — the map won’t work properly with direct user interaction. Only slicer interaction will work.

    You can see the layers in the dashboard by opening the Selection pane. If you want to check the map settings without moving the visuals, you can select the map visual from the Selection panel.

     

     

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Shahid12523
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1 year ago

Power BI’s Azure Map visual doesn’t support direct labels on reference layer polygons like counties. But here are quick workarounds:
- Bubble Layer Centroids: Add county center points as a separate layer and enable category labels.
- Convert GeoJSON to Points: Use point features with county names to show labels.
- Tooltips: Hover to see county names from the GeoJSON properties.
- Static Image Overlay: Add a labeled map image over the visual (non-interactive).

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    bwalker42
    Regular Visitor
    1 year ago

    Shahed,

     

    Thank you for your response.

     

    I can't use tooltips because the labels to be on the final map (exported to PDF).

     

    Can you give some details on how to do "Bubble Layer Centroids", "Convert GeoJSON to Points", and "Static Image Overlay"?  I'm new at making maps and I'm not familiar with those concepts.

     

    Thanks,

    Brett