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Please support 2 digit ISO country codes also.

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on 07 Jan 2016 03:06:23

I noticed that the completed installed base of our machines was not shown on the Bing Map. After experimenting I realised that it was because our ERP system works with 2 digit ISO country codes, while it seems you need the 3 digit country code. Our ERP system is limited to 2 characters. It would be great if Power BI supports 2 and 3 digits, For example, the country code RU did not show our machines in Russia.

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Jens Klöker on 25 Mar 2021 07:35:55

RE: Please support 2 digit ISO country codes also.

I tried it out today by using the filled map and a 2 digit iso code field containing "RU" and data-categorized as "Country" for the location well. This worked like expected. However I don't know if it works in general. An official MS statement would be great, since they still train people to use 3 digit codes instead of 2 digit codes in an official learning path (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/visuals-in-power-bi/5-map-visualizations).

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Jens Klöker on 24 Mar 2021 17:22:42

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OMG - I hope this is supported in the meanwhile. I don‘t want to know, how many wrong insights have been created by Power BI users worldwide due to this behavior.

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Tolga on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:19

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I think we need full location code support from UN.

https://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/welcome.html

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Ana Valentí on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:04

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Very much needed! It will simplify and avoid many intermediate process

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:02

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Absolutely needed! This would make our life a lot easier!

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Victoria Ventosa on 05 Jul 2020 23:24:58

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Hi, this is very much needed. We are taking data straight from Microsoft Dynamics (aprox. 20k records) and the addresses have the 2-digit code for country, never even heard about a 3-digit before... And because of this Bing Maps is placing addresses all over the place: Turkey in North Corea, Spain in Argentina, UK in Australia, it is a mess!

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Zoe on 05 Jul 2020 22:47:59

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I also spent/wasted quite a bit of time trying to figure out why Russia was not showing up on my map. I find it crazy that ISO 3166 Alpha-2 codes are not used.

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Christopher on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:24

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Definitely.

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Michael on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:42

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Currently, Russia (RU) is not shown properly as 2-digit ISO code while other countries are. Would be great to have full support as the current state is pretty misleading.

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Koen Verbeeck on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:36

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This would be nice indeed. For Virgin Islands, VG is recognized, but VI isn't.