MAP showing wrong locations

[webportal]

Hello,

When creating a map to show the population of different Portuguese cities, I was careful enough to write the name of the city followed by " - Portugal" in the database to prevent it from showing the wrong locations.

This map has always worked ok, but now, for some reason I assume related with updating the Bing API, it is showing lots of wrong locations.

For example "Porto - Portugal", the 2nd largest city, is showing on Mexico!

This is how the maps looks like!

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @webportal,

In my test, the location was highlighted in correct position on the map.

In your scenario, please check:

• What data category have you selected for that column? If setting category to "uncategorized", whether map shows locations correctly.
• If conbining country and city name together to navigate to corresponding location, whether issue persists?
• Search for those locations on the Bing Maps itself (bing.com/maps) to see whether they can be shown correctly.
• Update your desktop to the latest version for a test.

Besides, please review this article which provide several tips to increase the likelihood of correct geo-coding.

Best regards,
Yuliana Gu

[webportal]

Hello Yuliana,

Thanks, but as you can see here, the map is wrong, even if I add the name of the country, as mentioned in my question.

The report was built in Power BI Service so it doesn't have a data category. The data was uploaded from an Excel table.

As I mentioned, this map worked perfectly until last week, so this must be related with an upgrade of the service.

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @webportal,

So, this problem that map visual displayed wrong loactions occurred on service, right? It is a known issue confirmed by product team, we have reported internally, and the team is working on this.

Regards,
Yuliana Gu

[lekkerbek]

I don't think it's limited to the service. I have the same problem on Power BI Desktop.

Locations were correct in The Netherlands, but now some cities are displayed in Belgium.

[webportal]

@v-yulgu-msft that's cool!