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Katerina_SL
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1 year ago
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exclude areas with postcodes on map

Hello Everyone!   Could you please help me with an issue I'm facing regarding creating a filled map in Power BI? I have a table listing the countries where we are able to conduct transport operati...
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    dk_dk
    1 year ago

    Ah I see. I don't think it is possible to visualise postcodes on filled map visual without having the entire postcode in your data source. So I am pretty sure you would need a dataset with all the postcodes.

    I found this one for free and there are a couple paid options it looks like. You would need to load something like this into PowerBI, and then do the query steps I described above to flag which out of all postcodes is restricted. Although this would be quite a heavy query for just this one visual...
    If the restricted postcode rules do not change often (less frequently than a year) I would find some online visualiser tool where you can highlight specific postcodes on a map, and save it as a static picture instead.

    Sorry I can't be of more help!