Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago
Solved

Filled Map by 3 digit Zip Code

Hi team: I've been working with filled map to monitor sales, and instead of using the regular 7 digit zip code, we use the prefix of it and plug in a 3 digit zip code:     Nevertheless, t...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Anonymous,

    Power BI integrates with Bing to provide default map coordinates and Bing Maps provides filled map shapes for locations around the world. However, without a valid entry in the Location well, Power BI cannot create the filled map.

    In your scenario, 3 digits Zip codes that start with 0 are not enough for Bing to correctly display the saturation in map, use regular 7 digit zip code instead or you can add latitude and longitude values to your dataset which return results more quickly.

    Regards,
    Lydia

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I fixed it by creating a hierarchy of: State - 3 Digit zip code - Zip code. And then drill down by hierarchy.

    In this sense the heat map will display the ones that started with a 0.

    Thanks.