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Anonymous
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Geo Data Shapes Map

Hi,

I was trying to achive a GeoShape as shown in this tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV6y1pX0-hg

 

The .json file is from here.

https://github.com/isellsoap/deutschlandGeoJSON

 

I was using the 4_kreise. I get the wgs84 CRS but nevermind I doesn't show me any map in PowerBi, just blank. Does anything else been done to get it shown?

 

mapshaper.PNG

 Thanks for any reply.

 

Kind regards

Sam

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lbendlin
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The shape map needs TopoJSON, not GeoJSON.  use Mapshaper to convert as needed. Make sure to use field names that match map keys.

 

lbendlin_0-1602195304014.png

 

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lbendlin
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The shape map needs TopoJSON, not GeoJSON.  use Mapshaper to convert as needed. Make sure to use field names that match map keys.

 

lbendlin_0-1602195304014.png

 

Anonymous
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Great thanks a lot that works fabulous. Another question:

Do you know a .pbf or .poi file-converter who can last up to 3 GB?

why would you need a converter?  Isn't it just a list of lat/lon and some meta data? You should be able to consume that as a flat list/CSV directly.

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