Support SQL Server Geometry/Geography data types in Power BI

[chris_klimm]

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 by police beat.

[notrag]

Microsoft doesnt even support its own SQL server data type... Crazy!

[geoff_martin]

Displaying SQL geometry/geography data in a Map Visual is a must. We have tonnes of point/line/polygon spatial data we would like to display in BI.

[Dani74]

Dear Microsoft, Please support this feature for the on-prem data gateway. It a must have feature, and support your own geometry/geography data type from SQL Server seems a very reasonable move. Is needed for C3/C4 classified data wich resides on-premises sql databases.

[timothy_minter]

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?

[zwarren2]

This is huge for geospatial industries like O&G, defense, transportation, real estate, etc. Please bump up!

[jeff57]

Zack's right you know..

[bneelon]

What Zack and Jeff said...

But seriously, that's probably the one feature keeping our company from moving to Power BI as our main BI/Visualizatoin tool.

[Peter_Nolder]

This would be useful to me for plotting utilities that i report on. There are some route map visualizations out there but a multi point vector type option would be great!

[Darwin1]

We have a couple Crystal reports that use the geometry type and our users would love to be able to see a map on the Power BI version. Thanks!