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Visualize map polygons in PowerBI
Hi all, I would like to visualize GIS polygons based on wgs84 coordinates in PowerBI. Untill now I only was able to visualize points. Does anyone know how this can be done? If not, are there any ...
Hi Falco,
We just added this in the ArcGIS Visual and we will be blogging on it soon. You can use a shape field for Location and we'll read it. There are some limitations with Power BI that can cause some issues.
For example, a state counties dataset is polygon geometry. If the shape of polygon as a string is 40000 characters, it will get truncated at 32766 (the limit) causing the JSON string to be invalid and our code cannot parse the JSON shape. So we'll have some reccomendations on how to trim the characters to fit within the limits.
Stay tuned,
Andrew
Hi Anonymous ,
Do you mean that polygons will be added soon to the ArcGIS map visual? That would be cool! When will it be ready?
Hello Falco,
The ability is there now if the polys are in Esri JSON format.
https://doc.arcgis.com/en/power-bi/get-started/prepare-your-data.htm
We have a few blog posts on how to convert this, but right now working to squash a bug or two that slipped out on Tuesday. 😬