How to display university name on map?

[tprasad1]

Hi,

I am working on an interactive map on Power BI Desktop which comprises of colleges/universities across the state of Georgia. I am trying to display the University Name when I hover my cursor on the locations. I can see the city, county etc. but not the university name. I tried adding the university name column to visual level filters but that didn't help either. Any ideas or suggestions on how I can achieve the same?

Thanks!

[samdthompson · Accepted solution]

Assuming you have the lat/lng for the universities, why not add name as the Legend, that way you will have the name pop up on hover-over. If the city and county are important, perhaps create a calculated column which concatenates those things with University&", "&City&", "&County.

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[v-qiuyu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @tprasad1,

In your scenario, you can try to use the samdthompson's suggestion firstly.

If you already place a field in the Legend Property, I would suggest you place university name column in Location property. If there is another field in Location property, when you drill down the report, you can see the university name. See:

Also you can create a calculated column to concatenate university name column with another column like this ( Column = [Location] & [UniversityName] ), then place this new column in Location property.

If you have any question, please feel free to ask.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[ankitpatira]

@tprasad1 On top of what @samdthompson said if you have university name column in your dataset just drop it into Tooltips area for the Map visual and it will start appearing.

[samdthompson]

Adding text fields to tool tips always results in a arithmetic count for me @ankipatira rather than a label on hover-over. Is there a trick to that?

[djnww]

The Tooltips are only for aggregated data, so it won't work. The Power BI Team does need to add a 'Text' Tooltip. It will be extremely useful.

I think the 2nd post is your best answer.

Later this year, you will be able to upload your own mapping layers which should hopefully allow you to add landmarks.

Cheers,

DJ

[Anonymous]

You can drop a measure that returns text into the tooltip.

University Name = FIRSTNONBLANK( TableName(UniversityName), 1)

Assuming whatever you're using as your data point on the map corresponds to one university that will work. If it's an area that contains multiple universities (I dunno, maybe you have a hierarchy where they can drill up to the state or province) it will show the first university name in your table for that region.

[dsandberg]

This solution was perfect for me. I was looking for a solution to add a text label to a map dot.

[samdthompson]

@Anonymous can you conactenate together the firstnonblank returns in the measure so you get the University, the City & the County?

[Anonymous]

@samdthompson I don't see why not. I'm sure it would work if you did something like

University = FIRSTNONBLANK(TableName[UniversityName], 1) & ", " & FIRSTNONBLANK(TableName[City], 1) & ", " & FIRSTNONBLANK(TableName[County], 1)

...though I haven't actually tested this exact case.

[samdthompson · Accepted solution]

Assuming you have the lat/lng for the universities, why not add name as the Legend, that way you will have the name pop up on hover-over. If the city and county are important, perhaps create a calculated column which concatenates those things with University&", "&City&", "&County.

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