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helenah
10 years agoHelper I
Postal code areas on map
Hi, I have postal code area information on several countries and I cannot seem to find a common way to map it in Maps. For example, Germany postal codes with two digits (https://en.wikipedia.org/...
helenah
10 years agoHelper I
Update: For UK, it seems to work if I have same format as France (e.g. GB, AB) and set it as "Postal code".
However, a common way would be great since I don't know how to show global / Europe level data on one map if one country requires the data to be shown as "Postal code" and the other as "County"...
- helenah10 years agoHelper I
Another update - the above works for Map but not for Filled Map. Why is this?
- Eric_Zhang10 years agoMicrosoft Employee
I don't exactly know what cause the difference in your case, just share something I've found.
The abbreviation such as FR-U, DE-BE can be recognized in Map and Filled Map if they're categorized as "state or province".
So for the problem in your case, the cause can be that your data violates some kind of geographic standard?