Allow the ability to render polygons or lines if the datatype of a field in a table is set to Geospatial

[lane]

Hopefully the description said it all.

[learnfast]

Would also be nice to do polygon to polygon calculations as DocumentDB does now.

[jenningp1]

I would like to understand what encompasses redering. Does this include the ability to read shape files or attach to an ESRI SDE database?

[jenningp1]

For example I can directly add shape information I get as Open Data from the Alberta provincial government in Canada and can directly import into Tibco Spotfire. There is a workaround for Tableau.

[marcosfreccia]

I want this! No more explanations on why we need it 🙂

[johnlittle2000]

Need this to show franchisees the area serviced by a franchise

[douglas_kampe]

The geospatial aspect of PowerBI is lacking. If I can store the shape in SQL Spatial, I should be able to render it in PowerBI. I do all my geospatial analysis in ESRI and export directly to a SQL database set up for BI. My work analyzes bus route optimization, but I can do everything in PowerBI like evaluate efficiencies of existing routes and suggest alternate routes, but I cannot actually show the polylines routes on the map. I thought the ArcGIS extension would solve this, but it doesn't come close. Actually, I'm not sure what the ArcGIS extension does. Please include support for geometry and geography types.

[collmomo]

this arcgis solution is shit

[dcresp1]

The Power Map feature in Excel provides the ability to add in Polygons to maps but not Power BI. This is a feature that is really lacking in Power BI. One that is handled really well in Tableau though. Please MS have a look at this really badly needed feature.

[dperepolkin]

Please, do not reinvent the wheel. We need ability to plot WKT/WKB columns (please, take inspiration in Simple Features package in R)