Introduction to Icon Map for Fabric

Icon Map for Microsoft Fabric is a native Fabric workload that brings rich, interactive maps to the data already in your OneLake. It turns your Fabric data into location intelligence your whole organization can explore, share, and act on — with no separate GIS tools and no data to move.

Icon Map runs as a first-class item type inside your Fabric tenant, alongside your lakehouses, warehouses, semantic models, and reports, and is secured by your own tenant's permissions.

Private preview

Icon Map for Fabric is currently available as a private preview. Features are being rolled out progressively, so some capabilities described in this documentation may not yet be enabled in your environment. Join the wait list to request access.

What you can do with it

  • Build maps directly on your OneLake data — connect to Lakehouse tables and files, Warehouses and SQL databases, Power BI semantic models, Eventhouse/KQL, and live feeds, without copying or moving anything.
  • Combine many layers from many sources on one map — points, icons, shapes, lines and routes, 3D scenes, grids, heatmaps, travel-time catchments, imagery, and more.
  • Add thousands of ready-to-use layers from the Icon Map Catalog, or curate your own Organizational Catalog stored securely in your OneLake.
  • Add in-map charts, slicers, and panels so viewers can filter, summarize, and drill into the detail behind every location.
  • Analyze with selection and travel-time tools — lasso, radius, and drive-time selection that cross-filters your charts.
  • Publish and embed live, interactive maps in Fabric and in the apps, portals, and sites your internal and external audiences already use.

The Icon Map for Fabric items

Icon Map for Fabric adds several item types to your Fabric workspace:

Item What it's for
Icon Map The map authoring and viewing experience — the main product.
Icon Map Organizational Catalog Curate your own internal catalog of geospatial layers in OneLake, searchable from any map.
Tileset Builder Generate vector tilesets (PMTiles) from geospatial files in OneLake, on demand or on a schedule.
Floor Plan Importer Convert CAD/DXF floor plans into georeferenced GeoJSON / IMDF indoor maps.

Part of the Icon Map Platform

Icon Map for Fabric is one part of the wider Icon Map Platform, which meets your teams on the tools they already use — including Icon Map Pro and Icon Map Slicer for Power BI, the Icon Map Catalog, and (coming soon) Icon Map for Databricks.

Next steps