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Filled Map
Hi smoupre
Thanks for your reply - it is the only one I have received on this topic at time of writing. That said, I'm not sure I fully understand what you have said. How would I know I have a delay in Bing geocoding on my PC and how would I fix that ? Why are the weird gray and white shapes normal for a filled map ? I would have thought that the filled map visualisation should be empty, after which, when I check the 'Country' field, it should display a map of the world. How do I switch to a global map visualisation in Power BI Desktop and then swicth back again ? Becasue I can't do that, I can't try your workarond. I realise you may not be able to answer all of my questions above, but any you can answer, would be appreciated.
Kind Reagrds
Paul
So, if you have no data values selected and you choose a filled map or global map visualization, you get weird gray and white blocks, they are meant to provide a representation of the visualization that you will get, you will notice that there are dots on the global map and filled trapezoids on the filled map.
The global map visualization that I am referring to look like a globe. See the highlighted visualization below:
Ok. Got it. So, it's the 'Map' icon you're talking about ! I've tried your suggestion re switching to a 'Map' visualization and then back again to fix the issue, including putting another Filled Map on the page and then clicking "Country" (in my file), but it has not worked for me - it has not given me a map of the world of filled countries.
At the end of the day, I can't see why I just can't click on the Filled Map icon and then check the box next to Country, (which places it in the location well) and get a map of the world displaying the filled Countiries that are in the Country field in my file. I even changed the Data Category from 'Uncategorised' to 'Country/Region' and that didn't work either !
Surely Bing is capable of recognising basic country abbreviations such as USA, HK, AUS, GER, HOL for example, even if the data category is left as uncategorised.
Here's what I get with your example...
I converted the maps to regular so you can see Hong Kong on the screenshots but you get the exact same result with filled maps
(except you won't see HK unless you zoom in on the filled maps - no matter how big a value you give HK)
First using Country_Name which lists the full country name you get
Using Country which is only abbreviations you get this
AUS which I assumed to be Austria PBI assumes is Australia and GER and HOL which you see in the legend are not recognzied
Hope this helps!
So, if you switch back to Filled Map visualization, does it work?
