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I've been tasked with recreating in Power BI a map my team created in Tableau. I've never used Power BI for shape maps.
The Tableau version uses a shape files (.shp) from the NOAA website, joins is to a zipcode (.shp) shape file (unclear where they got this) on geometry (full outer join), and then joins the zipcode file to a "fact" table based on the zipcode (full outer join).
I read through some old posts and learned that I needed to convert the .shp file to TopoJSON, which I've done using mapshaper. Here's the issue I'm running into:
Below is a screenshot of what I'm trying to display for reference. The dots are locations we're trying to display by tier.
hello !
I think you can try to load TopoJSON in to the Shape Map visual as a custom maps
Thank you, but I tried that. What I have at the moment is 2 separate shape map visuals (hurricane path on the top, US zipcodes on the bottom). The View Map Type Key link won't open anything when I select it and I have no way to join the shape files the fact table so I can isolate the area that I want to display.
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