News, articles and how-to guides about Icon Map and geospatial analytics.
A common use case for our telecoms customers is to show cell tower locations, using wedge diagrams, to represent various information and KPIs. This blog shows a repeatable approach for achieving this using Icon Map Pro.
Icon Map Pro comes with a range of available background styles included. Sometimes you may want to provide the ability for the end-users of your report to select the style themselves.
Icon Map Pro provides the ability to show reference layers on the map. These reference layers are not connected to the Power BI data, they just additional context to the data layer.
H3 Hexagons provide a great mechanism for aggregating large volumes of point data.
Last week we released **Icon Map Slicer**. Knowing this would raise some questions, I thought I’d address them up front in a blog post.
You'll see references in the Icon Map Pro and Icon Map Slicer documentation about one of the hosting requirements for images etc to have CORS configured.
When most people think of maps, they picture roads, rivers, and perhaps outlines of buildings.
James Dales and I recently spoke at SQLBits about how geospatial analytics is transforming thanks to modern cloud-native formats.
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When explaining how to configure Icon Map Pro, for simplicity and ease of understanding, I usually show the data as a single flat table.
Today is day 4 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Unlike the AzureMaps and ArcGIS Power BI visuals, Icon Map Pro doesn't have the ability to geocode data - to take a postal address or placename and turn it into a longitude and latitude to display on the map.
Vector tiles unlock all sorts of possibilities in Icon Map Pro as they allow us to place complex lines and polygons on the map without having to load large files into the report.
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In our February release of Icon Map Pro, you’ll notice a new settings option, “Rendering”, so I thought I’d explain in more detail what’s behind this option, and why it’s there.
We had an interesting support request come through yesterday from a customer.
Yesterday I published a blog about drawing drive time isochrones on the map using the Azure Maps API called from PowerQuery, all inside of Power BI.
Yesterday Microsoft published a blog post about Isochrones in the Azure Maps Route Range API. Isochrones are a great way to represent the amount of time it takes to travel from a point.
During the recent 30 Day Map Challenge I published a report with many of Europe's railway routes, which gained a lot of interest. I thought I'd see whether the same thing was possible for bus routes.
We made it! It's the 30th so the final day of this year's #30DayMapChallenge.
The penultimate day - it's day 29 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's topic is "Overture" - *Use data from the Overture Maps Foundation.
Nearly there - it's day 28 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's topic is "The blue planet" - *Map oceans, rivers, and lakes. Focus on water today.
And we're up to day 27 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's topic is "Micromapping" - *Map something small and precise. Zoom in and map a small area in high detail.
Day 26 of the #30DayMapChallenge brings us to the theme of "Map Projections" - *Explore different map projections and how they distort the world.
Moving onto the last week of the #30DayMapChallenge and it's day 25. Today's theme is Heat - *Map something related to heat.
As we enter the weekend it 's day 23 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is 2 colours - *Map based on memory. Create a map of a place you remember—hometown, favorite destination, or somewhere meaningful.
It's already 22 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is 2 colours - *Create a map using only 2 colors. No gradients or shading—just two flat colors.
On to day 21 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is Conflict - *Map a conflict. Political, territorial, or social—there are conflicts all around us.
It's day 20 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is OpenStreetMap - *Use OpenStreetMap data to create something. OpenStreetMap offers rich, editable data from roads to buildings and beyond.
It's day 19 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is Typography - *Map focused on typography. Let text and words do the heavy lifting today.
Sunday's challenge is day 17 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is Collaborative Map - *Collaborate with others on a single map. For today’s challenge, team up!
Saturday brings us to day 16 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is "Choropleth" - *Classic choropleth map. Use color to show data variation across regions.
Half way there! Day 15 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is "My data" - *Map something personal.
Day 14 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is a world map - *Map the whole world. Whether it’s continents, ecosystems, or oceans, this is the day to map the entire planet.
Day 13 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is a new tool - *Use a tool you’ve never tried before. The challenge has always been about trying new things.
Moving onto day 12 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is Time and Space - *Map something where time matters. Visualize change over time—urban growth, migration, or environmental shifts.
It's already day 11 of the #30DayMapChallenge and today's theme is the Arctic - *Map the Arctic.
We're onto day 10 of the #30DayMapChallenge and the theme is pen and paper - *Draw a map by hand. Go analog and draw a map using pen and paper.
We're onto day 9 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
We're onto day 8 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Today is day 7 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
November 1st kicks off the 30-Day Map Challenge. Each day in November brings a new map visualisation challenge, and naturally, I'll be using Icon Map Pro in Power BI.
Today is day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Today is day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Any now we're moving along to day 3 of the #30DayMapChallenge.
2nd of November brings us to the 2nd Day of the #30DayMapChallenge.
Meteomatics provide a weather API that can be used to overlay a wide range of weather layers onto your map as a WMS overlay.
Esri are the market leader in GIS software and many of the companies we speak to have a large investment in ArcGIS with much of their geospatial data estate held within the platform.
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I've just submitted an update to the old Icon Map visual in Microsoft AppSource, which should go live very soon.
As a UK based geospatial company, it seemed natural to want to visualise the UK general election results as they're being announced inside of Power BI using Icon Map Pro.
Whilst we have it on our backlog, Icon Map Pro doesn't yet have the ability to draw a legend.
In this video I show you how easy it is to create a drilldown shape map using Icon Map Pro.
More than six years ago I created Icon Map, a map visual for Power BI. This year I've set up a new company alongside Tekantis CTO, Brynn Borton, to launch Icon Map Pro.