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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
When I use a concatenated lat/long in Power BI Desktop I get the following pop-up:
Subject: More location data is required to create a filled map
Detail: To create a filled map, the Location data should include Bing Map-supported geographic data, such as country/region, state/province, or postal code.
I was able to get it working by:
1. Using a concatenated lat/long in the "Location" field (eg. "<latitude>,<longitude>", no quotes though)
2. Putting Latitude into the "Latitude" field
3. Putting Longitude into the "Values" field, NOT the Longitude field
4. Leaving the "Longitude" field empty
I don't know why it worked, but it did.
