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    With Shape Map, support Albers projection for custom maps (U.S. counties)

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    Nick Nigro on 18 Aug 2016 09:05:50

    The Shape Map visualization now supports custom maps. This is great! For U.S. maps, unfortunately, only the default map supports the Albers projection. We need this projection to show Alaska and Hawaii with the other 48 states in a user-friendly way. Please add support for the Albers projection with custom maps (e.g., U.S. counties).

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:06

    RE: With Shape Map, support Albers projection for custom maps (U.S. counties)

    If the default PowerBI US:state shape map can leverage this feature, custom US shape maps should be able to as well.

    Please provide instructions on how to prepare a TopoJSON US shape map to leverage the modified Albers composite projection built into D3 to rotate, scale and transpose Alaska and Hawaii beneath the 48 contiguous continental states (i.e. to prevent the removal of the "Albers USA" projection option when a custom map is used).