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sjkp
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11 years ago
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How to map latitude longitude

I'm trying to plot latitude longitude on a map in power bi Desktop on a standard map. In location field I'm unable to add both latitude and longitude. There are also two fields for latitude and long...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    sjkp,

    This one is a little counter intuitive. The only map tool that can take straight lat/long is Power Map in Excel, but there currently isn't any integration with the rest of the BI stack yet for that.

     

    The way you do this in Power View - maps, or the PBI Desktop is put you lat and long in the appropriate Fields, then whatever it is you are examining in that location (count of wrecks, count of "x") that goes in the location and the value fields. Then your bubbles will show up in the middle of the ocean at the coordinates you specified in the lat/long.

    If there aren't direct counts, I would assume you can just create a column to contain the value of 1 to make this work.

    Here is a screenshot of the sample data I pulled in and the layout in PBI Desktop

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residentx
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10 years ago

I found a solution but I used the global map. It found all the locations:

 

Spreadsheet LayoutAccurate Global Mapping

 

Here's what I did:

 

1. I did change the numbers to decimal

2. I merged the fields to include city and location.(combined location, clocation)

3. I had two unique columns. One had unique dates. The other had Priority numbers that were unique.

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residentx
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10 years ago

This is the result with just the original "Map"

 

Combined Locations Colored

Individually colored