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Filled Map has stopped working today
Anonymous
Hi All,
As known, Power BI Map visual uses Bing map. There's something changed in the PBI and Bing map integration. See Bing maps improvements.
Here's some suggestion
- Set DataCategory for the geo column in the Modeling phase
- Use a location hierarchy that includes Country to scope the geocoding query, and drill using “hierarchy” drill icon (pitchfork)
So please download the latest Power BI desktop and follow above two suggestions to tweak map visuals in your report, then re-publish.
Resolver IJune update for Power BI has just come through and the mapping issue between desktop and service has now been rectified. The solution was to create a location heirachy starting with country as level 1 and then Postcode as level 2.
However, the filled map visualistion which used to work on desktop has now stopped functioning and returns the following error when drilling down to the poctcode level. Whish is strange as the structure works fine in bubble maps.
Microsoft EmployeeAnonymous
Hi All,
As known, Power BI Map visual uses Bing map. There's something changed in the PBI and Bing map integration. See Bing maps improvements.
Here's some suggestion
- Set DataCategory for the geo column in the Modeling phase
- Use a location hierarchy that includes Country to scope the geocoding query, and drill using “hierarchy” drill icon (pitchfork)
So please download the latest Power BI desktop and follow above two suggestions to tweak map visuals in your report, then re-publish.
- SteveD2
As indicated, the Power BI June update has recified some of the mapping issues between desktop and the service. However, as indicated earlier I still have an issue with the filled maps, although I've now discovered the issue doesn't appear to be consistent. To explain, when I use a Population category (A,B or C) I receive this error.
But when I swap out the Population category with an Age Category (A or B) then the filled map works as per below.
From the matrix view I can see there are no obvious errors in the categories... the only difference is the Population Cat has three values whereas the others have two... surely that isn't the problem.
This is doing my head in!
- SteveD2
Has anyone been able to get the filled map visualisation to work properly?
We have our Location field in the map using a field that combines CITY, STATE COUNTRY.
These maps ceased to work with the June release.We were able to correct this by selecting our CITY, STATE COUNTRY field, and then in the Modeling tab changing the Data Category to PLACE.
This is the only method we have had success with the new (as of June release) maps. The MS documentation showing Country & postal code hierarchy has not worked for us. It confuses citys with Countries and vice versa at least a third of the time.
- SteveD2
Filled maps stopped working again after the January 2018 update.
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- SteveD2
Yep, the service appears to be working fine, the error I have is in the desktop version.
- GilbertQ
Super User
It works for me in the January update.
I would suggest making sure that where you are working from has got internet access.
As well ensure that from the PC you are working on, can access Bing Maps
