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Filled Map has stopped working today

I've got a visual in the Power BI Service that uses the Filled Map visual.  This visual was working yesterday and does not work today.  I've downloaded the PBIX file out of the service and it works c...
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  • Eric_Zhang's avatar
    Eric_Zhang
    9 years ago

    SteveD2

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    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 

    1. Set DataCategory for the geo column in the Modeling phase
    2. 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.

     

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Eric_Zhang
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9 years ago

SteveD2

Anonymous

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GreyWolf27

JordanBieber

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 

  1. Set DataCategory for the geo column in the Modeling phase
  2. 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.

 

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9 years ago

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!

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    SteveD2
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    9 years ago

    Has anyone been able to get the filled map visualisation to work properly?

    • JordanBieber's avatar
      JordanBieber
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      9 years ago

      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.