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Advocate IIHow to map latitude longitude
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
Helper IVThanks for the tips, Greggyb. In regards to county, I had to use "Howard County, MD" [County, State] or my data was off.
Also, do you know why it bubbles instead of filling in the county borders? EDIT: I got it. I used the regular MAP but "filled" is the border one.
Mapping by County
Filled Map by Zipcode
Helper IVI couldn't pull up any city in Howard or Carroll County, Maryland though...weird! I'll open tickets with Bing Maps.
- residentx
Ukraine I got done. I could do "city" filled map and a regular map. I put in the administrative centres and color coded the oblasts!
Capitals with color coded Oblasts
Filled Map by Cities