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Hi - Please find list of companies against each city - I want to plot these companies in the map using power bi - please note majority of the cities are US based , however there are few which are No...
Hey sks2701 ,
I recommend reading this whitepaper: Exploring Maps in Power BI Whitepaper | BlueGranite
Even if this is an older document, it still holds true.
Regarding your 2nd question: as soon as you have added a country column, you can only filter for US companies. There are no "auto-generated" columns containing spatial information.
Regarding you first question, what is your expectation, do you expect that each company will appear as a datapoint?
As you can see, visualizing spatial information comes with some extra challenges:
If you follow this link: Cities named Orlando. How many places are named Orlando? (geotargit.com)
the result shown in the above Azure map is of no surprise.
Hopefully, this gets you started
Tom