Spatial analysis in Power BI using shapefile

[Anonymous]

I know how to use shapefiles to create custom shape maps visualisations in Power BI, but it it possible to use a shapefile for data prep?

If I have a list of locations (addresses, postcodes or lat, long) can I lookup which area they are within based on a shapefile? The shapefile would contain closed, non-overlapping polygons.

Many thanks,

Mark.

[themistoklis]

@Anonymous 

You can do spatial analysis if you connect to Esri ArcGIS or MapBox.

I think you need a license for both.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-esri-arcgis/

Otherwise you can use QGIS which is completely free.