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Map Visualization Not Working On Power BI Service, Work in Desktop
had the same problem and got it to work again
its just the update to the map control in the june release 3 days ago
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-june-feature-summary/#geoHierarchy
use multiples seperate fields now like street + postal + city + country
if you want to keep your one field just remove the categorization and it should work again
Hi all - to answer my own issue and hopefully save someone some time!
I have found that the latest update of powerbi.com is not supporting data sources in the same way as last week. Its possibly an improvement but had an impact nonetheless that’s not cricket!
Check your query and data types, previously if you used an alpha-number string type for Lat and Long - Power bi online handled it fine and displayed map positions. Currently power BI desktop still does handle it fine, and all is dandy!
I believe the change last week now requires lat and long to be a Decimal number for them to work as required and plot locations. I have changed these useing a query step on both fields - republished the reports and the maps appear to be working.
Let me know how you all get on :)
I got a response from Eric_Zhang, who explained what happened and provided a fix: