Route Map custom visual has been broken for a while. Are there alternatives available?

Question

Route Map is a custom control provided by a third party. When working, it would trace out a route over time, and worked well with the Play Axis control. The routes are no longer showing and based on a variety of reports, functionality has progressively declined on both Desktop, Service and Mobile. I doubt the developer is going to fix it.

I'm looking for suggestions on alternatives. The nice feature about Route Map is that you could provide an itinerary, say the locations (lat/long) for each day of a cruise. You could see the full itinerary, and then animate it with the Play Axis, adding color-coding to indicate different segments, say a sea day in one color, a port day in another, and a land journey extension in another.

As an interim workaround I'm using the standard map control, I can animate each day, in sequence, but we are missing the persistent paths between points.

greg_deckler · Answer

Could you use something like GENERATE to create a list of lat/long points in a straight line betwen points? Then you would have a line via dots. Things like these might help:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Bearing-in-Mind/td-p/984499
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Going-the-Distance/td-p/963267

greg_deckler · Answer

tommy_g how are you animating the standard map?

tommy_g · Answer

Animation is a function of setting the timeline dates in the control and filtering by Play Axis. Data is list of travel days with location and other attributes. Show below are the desired tracks as designed and working until some time in 2019, and my own report. My report shows standard map at right, bubbles move as intended. Route Map to the right gives me nothing.