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andrewbt
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Map visualisation not recognising Great Britain

Hi all

 

This is a really odd problem - hoping someone else has come across it before.

 

I've a dataset with countries, including Great Britain, and a map visualisation that shows overall results (bubble size) by country which is working well.  I created a second Power BI model with a map visualisation based on exactly the same dataset, and in this second model all countries except Great Britain appear.  The Bing map shows United Kingdom as "the country" and I guess I could change the data, but as it is picking up Great Britain for one of the models I can't understand why it wouldn't do so for the other.

 

Any ideas/suggestions?  It's driving me mad!

 

Thanks

 

Andrew

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v-alq-msft
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Hi, @andrewbt 

 

Based on my test, you may modify 'Great Britain' as 'UK' which can be identified by bing map.

g1.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-alq-msft
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Community Support

Hi, @andrewbt 

 

Based on my test, you may modify 'Great Britain' as 'UK' which can be identified by bing map.

g1.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thanks @v-alq-msft 

 

Yes, that would do it.  Strictly UK = Great Britain + Northern Ireland, so not exactly the same thing, but in this case I don't need to distinguish NI so I could use that.  I knew I could transform data and solve it that way, I was wondering if anyone knew why the map visualisation would sometimes recognise Great Britain and sometimes not.  Could be a time when I do need to distinguish Northern Ireland (@PaulDBrown's point on Brexit 😂).

 

Very odd, but thanks for taking the time to provide the alternative!

PaulDBrown
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@andrewbt 

Brexit? 
sorry...that wasn't very helpful...





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