©  Adam Aspin 2018
Adam AspinPro Power BI Desktophttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3210-1_19

19. Maps in Power BI Desktop

Adam Aspin
(1)
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK
 
Another powerful technique that you can use to both analyze and present your insights is to display the data in map form. All that this requires is that your source data contains information that can be used for geographical representation. So if you have country, state, town, postal (or ZIP) code, or even latitude and longitude in the dataset, then you can get Power BI Desktop to add a map to your report and show the selected data using the map as a background.
Better yet, a Power BI Desktop map behaves just like any other visual. This means that you can filter the data that is ...

Get Pro Power BI Desktop now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.