The ability to display and create Filled Maps (choropleth) using the native SQL Server geometry/geography data types is a must to allow for meaningful geospatial visualization. e.g. Visualize crimes...
location information technology and data structures have been widely commercially available since at least the 1980s, which if I'm counting right... just ran out of fingers.
so, why not?
- is it unpossible?
- are place name conceptual tokens sufficient for representing where things are? hint: no, they are not.
- is it strategery?
- does most of the stuff we report on in Power BI not have an associated location element?
- do we not need to understand spatial relationships among our stuff?
