Filled Map Issues

[ahines]

I've been having a lot of issues with this filled map recently and can't figure out how to fix it. And even when I do counties the state field and county field mix together. I've got my 'State' field categorized to state and I'm still having this issue. Do I need to have a country field as well? All of my states have data and this is what my filled map shows. 

Can someone help me with this issue? 

[fhill]

See my 'how it's supposed to work' example 1 below, and example 2 of 'how to get it to work'...  For some reason, ONLY Cobb County GA shows up on the 'how it's supposed to work' method.  I had to create a merged column more clearly defining what i'm looking for in exmaple 2 to get the proper results!

When dealing wth filled maps remember the location 'logic' is based on Bing searching.  So, basically I like to think about manually typing in a Bing search...  am I searching for 'Baldwin' and 'AL' in Bing Maps, or what if I searched for 'Baldwin County AL' in Bing Maps!

Hope this helps, and don't forget to assign your location a Data Category under Modeling on the Ribbon!

FOrrest

[ahines]

Thank you for the response. I think it worked for county level but I am still unsure of how to fix it at a state level. 

[fhill · Accepted solution]

*** One quick disclosure, I WISH it didn't work this way, but sometimes this is what you have to do to get BING maps happy... ***

See below where I have <State Name> "State" <County Name> in one field i'm using as Location on the filled map.  I have the 'Data Category' under Modeling set to 'State or Province'.    Thank you BING MAPS!  haha

[Anonymous]

Wow, I'm running into this issue big time right now. I had to do "New York State" instead of "New York".

Yet, somehow it's magically fine with Bavaria, England, Antioquia, etc.

This is absolutely insane. They really need a guide on how to properly format this information; it broke many of my public online samples. Maybe I'm missing something. I saw a little sentence in the June summary saying it's changing, but I didn't see any documentation on how to deal with the change.

Now I've got to figure out how in the world it's going to accept all the city names I have that aren't showing up. I'm using the official international English designations, but apparently that's not good enough for the new Bing geocode API.

[ahines]

I completely agree. This is a mess. 

[ahines]

Wow, that is inconvenient to do. I don't recall this filled map being that hard to fill before a few months ago. 

Thank you for the help. That has solved my problem.

[fhill]

I agree it was easier a few months ago... not sure what changed.  😞