Hi,The new Icon Map from Altius looks really impressive. The demo was great and just downloaded it. I was wondering if i could get some tutorial along with some sample data that comes with it. Is it possible? Thanks,Sami

Ralphqiu Hi. Glad you're finding it useful. Yes - all things on my to do list. I also want to change the tooltips to use the Power BI standart tooltips so that when custom visuals support page in tooltips, these will work too.

Great APP, I must say! I love it and am using it for my daily analysis. Thanks! Is it possible to add in the "Tooltip" function like the POWERBI original map visual? So I can add in as many details as I want. For now the Icon map only has two possible details for Tooltip. And for the label size and the size of the icon, I am having thousands of icons on the global map. It looks great when I zoom in for details. But when I zoom out on the global level, it is quite messy because the words and icons are overlapping. Is it possible to add an option, when zoomed out at a certain level, do not show any Labels and shrink the size of the icon. And when zoomed out at the global level, the map is continous by copying itself like a long scroll but the data points are only showed on one "globe". Is it possible to expand the data to the whole map? again, thanks for the great work!

samihuq are you able to share your report with me, so I can look into this for you?

Hi eloymora Great to hear you're using it :-) Yes - working on both of these - I don't have a date yet - but hopefully in the next few weeks. Thanks James

Hi Anonymous I'm afriad not yet. Report page tooltips have only recently been supported in custom visuals. It's on my to do list however.

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kstiegler
Advocate I
7 years ago
Edit: Never mind - I had an issue with my setup. I had the wrong field in the Category section. Once I fixed that, my map drew as expected.

This is a great visual! Looking forward to the tooltips!
propedog
Regular Visitor
6 years ago
James,
I watched the videos of the presentations you made at Microsoft Business Applications Summit.
This new version of Icon Map custom visual is a great improvement compared to version 1.
I would like to test it in the reports that I have to develop but in the marketplace it is not available.
Where can I find the updated file?
Thank you in advance and congratulations for the good work.
v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago
Hi samihuq,

Here is a vedio tutorial for your reference: Power BI - Icon Map custom visual - Analysing and animating flight data

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu
- samihuq
  Helper III
  8 years ago
  Thanks, but actually i was looking forward for the .pbix file to see how the the london metro data table is organized and how do we set up a similar one
  - jamesdales
    Kudo Kingpin
    8 years ago
    Hi
    
    Hopefully this will help: Icon Map Sample
    
    It doesn't have the metro example in there - I need to dig that out. But it's based on a similar structure as the flight one.
    
    Cheers
    
    James
Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago
How do you get the plane icon? I want to show different icons for different types of commerce moving through its supply chain, but i can't even figure out how to get the plane icon let alone how to change it.
- jamesdales
  Kudo Kingpin
  8 years ago
  Hi New2BINow
  
  The plane icon isn't part of the map. The map will work with any icon - but it needs to be hosted on an external website. You create column in your data table with the URL of the icon you want to display, and drag that into the Icon field of the map.
  
  eg;
  
  Location Icon Long Lat Size
  Home "https://myurl.com/house.png" 59.5 4.3 30
eloymora
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago
Hi

I really like this visual, looks impressive and I'm using it as much as I can. I have a couple of feature requests which would make this visual even better:

Colour coding by a property
Great circle lines cut off at the date line; if possible to wrap these it would look pretty smart

Kind regards
Eloy
- jamesdales
  Kudo Kingpin
  8 years ago
  Hi eloymora
  
  Great to hear you're using it :-)
  
  Yes - working on both of these - I don't have a date yet - but hopefully in the next few weeks.
  
  Thanks
  
  James
- eloymora
  Frequent Visitor
  6 years ago
  Hi jamesdales
  
  Any news on the suugestions I posted some time ago?
  Colour coding by a property
  Great circle lines cut off at the date line; if possible to wrap these it would look pretty smart
  Kind regards and thanks!
  Eloy
iankjames
New Member
7 years ago
jamesdales

Hi James,
Great work.
Does it have a lasso capability to select multiple points?
Cheers,
Ian
- jamesdales
  Kudo Kingpin
  6 years ago
  Hi iankjames
  
  Sorry - no it doesn't yet support selecting multiple points, or lasso.
  - awiebe
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago
    Hello,
    
    Is there a working example currently available of individual routes for a number of unique categories, something more complex and with more route-gps points than the filght example? Something along the lines of a number of subway cars with their current location and their route, or a taxi fleet showing their route and location?
    
    Thanks
NeroTolentino
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago
Hi jamesdales ,

Great visual. Can you also share how you came up with the icon rotations? Thanks and looking forward to it.

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