Counties Leipzig city and Leipzig surrounding rural area are depicted incorrectly in area map visual

[MM22]

Hello all,

In an area map visual, whatever string for the city of Leipzig and the surrounding rural district around Leipzig I use (2 different counties!), it always shows them as a combination of the two, as if there was only one county for both of them combined. This is incorrect.

As you can see e.g. in the table presented on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Landkreise_und_kreisfreien_St%C3%A4dte_in_Sachsen, the city of Leipzig and the surrounding area are two different counties.

All Saxony counties, correctly depicting the 2 counties 'Leipzig' and 'Landkreis Leipzig':

To be clear, the following strings for the different counties always resulted in the same area in an area map visual, and the resulting area is always just the two counties together:

'kreisfreie Stadt Leipzig',

'Leipzig',

'Stadt Leipzig',

'Landkreis Leipzig'

If I should use different strings to obtain each of the two different counties, please let me know.

If you need further information on this, please let me know.

For a mapping of the individual postal codes of Saxony and their corresponding county, feel free to head to https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/georef-germany-postleitzahl/export/?refine.lan_name=... to download the csv (402 rows).

[v-yanjiang-msft]

Hi @MM22 ,

My concern is how can I guarantee the authenticity of the information you provide, after all, they are also third-party websites but not official websites.

Best regards,

Community Support Team_yanjiang

[MM22]

Hello @v-yanjiang-msft and thank you very much for your answer.

In that case, check the following URL:

https://www.lds.sachsen.de/?ID=4141&art_param=372

It is the official website of the 'Landesdirektion Sachsen' and the link shows the very map I shared in my original post.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards

MM22

[DavidPorTodos]

Hi, the issue is actually not only for the city of Leipzig, there are several other cities or part of Germany that are not correctly recognized by Power BI. A full list of German districts could be found here List of districts of Germany - Wikipedia.

Please notice that cities like Aachen, Ansbach ...Leipzig and more have both a rural and a urban form, what in Germany is known as "Landkreis" and "Kreisfreie Stadt". You actually apply this rule already for some other district like of Amberg, see picture below

  

Best Regards