Dashboards often contain information about sites on different continents or in different countries, regions, or cities. With maps, managers can control, for example, the geography of sales, deliveries, or purchases. There are several maps in the standard set of Power BI visuals; of the simple ones, there are two options:
Map (bubble map)
This displays values as bubbles; the higher the value, the larger the bubble.
Filled map
This displays regions and countries that have data filling their area. But there is no qualitative difference in filling.
There are also options for integration with Azure Maps and ArcGIS, but this is mostly for corporate projects. AppSource has many other maps with different capabilities and adaptations for certain regions (for example, provinces of China).
The map in Figure 12-1 illustrates how sales are spread across the regions of Europe. As you can see, there is a focus of sales around Paris, but there are almost equal sales across the regions of the country. Shipments to England stand out in terms of scale compared with the rest of the European regions, but there are no sales in the UK. Sales in Germany are uniform and have a few dispersed centers throughout the country.
Figure 12-1. Map to illustrate sales in different regions of Europe; the bigger the bubble, the more ...
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