Reading Time: 4 minutes With the September release of Microsoft Power BI Desktop, the recently announced ArcGIS Maps for Power BI are available in preview. After having an opportunity to use the Esri ArcGIS map for the first time in…
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Power BI with ArcGIS Maps on the BlueGranite Blog
Reading Time: < 1 minute Over time, this personal blog (somehow) became a Power BI mapping blog. As a result, it would seem odd to not address the newly announced Esri collaboration and ArcGIS Maps for Power BI here. My thoughts on…
Read MoreTopoJSON Map Files for Power BI Shape Map
Reading Time: 3 minutes About a month ago, I started a collection of TopoJSON map files in response to a request on the Power BI Community forum. TopoJSON is D3’s preferred format, which is why Power BI users have suddenly…
Read MoreOvercoming Potential Power BI Shape Map Rendering Issues
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Kasper de Jonge’s great blog post “Use any map with Power BI”, he recommends a convenient tool called mapshaper. Mapshaper is a free web application created by Matthew Bloch that works with a variety of different geographic file formats…
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