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Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

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Joe Durand on 01 Apr 2015 01:09:42

I work in the Real Estate industry and receive requests to plot data points on map showing sales in which our company has participated. Everything went fine until I tried viewing all the data points and ended up with "Showing a Representative Sample". I would like the ability to show a minimum of 2500 data points

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Brett Estes on 16 Aug 2020 04:17:14

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

I need the ability to either map data points into the 100's of thousands across the US or the ability to layer the map and search within a multipolygon area. If I could break it down into a smaller geographic section (State -> County -> Census Tract -> Census Block) and combine those layers with a layer of the data points, perhaps I could get it down to 2500 without having to create a report per Census Block.

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Satish on 16 Aug 2020 04:16:05

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

This is important feature for us to go ahead.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:15:42

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

This is an embarrassingly low number of points to display, renders Power BI almost unusable for point data when compared to others.

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Edmar Barbosa Machado on 16 Aug 2020 04:14:51

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

I had the similar issue I tried to plot point Brazilian cities around 5k points but there is a limit it can plot just 3500 maximum point. It's frustraction. I hope it will be improve in the future update.

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Jesper Barslund on 16 Aug 2020 04:13:50

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

Work in Telco and I've often been asked to plot +2,5 million Lat / Long.

Would not care about performance loss if it's an options, even if just on the desktop.

Currently using Python or R to plot the data instead.

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David on 16 Aug 2020 04:13:26

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

I work in the water industry in Scotland, and as we are starting out in PowerBI this has become an issue for us too.

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Jeff Lesh on 16 Aug 2020 04:13:01

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

we as well need this fixed.

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Alfonso Alcalde on 16 Aug 2020 04:12:34

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

We need more than this, 2500 is far too little.

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Krishna Khemraj on 16 Aug 2020 04:11:51

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

I plotted 60k counties easily in Tableau using a filled map, but found it impossible to do in Power BI. It could be done in R, but didn't meet the request for a filled map. Please increase the data point limit.

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Power BI User on 16 Aug 2020 04:11:09

RE: Allow more data points to be displayed on a map

I administer electronic equipment inventories in all 254 counties in the State of Texas. I prepare an analysis for each county to determine quantities needed in the counties. I also need to know status and location. I have a data sheet that lists the location of every unit across the state. I want to know if I can build individual county maps that contain the physical location and quanties at those locations.