Working across the environmental industry – it’s fair to say that pretty much ALL of DiscoverEI’s Power BI reports have a map! And if you thought that MapBox was good, well you’re going to LOVE the Icon Map custom visual in Power BI – which allows you to display interactive polygons, points, lines and of course – icons, all in the one visual…plus so much more!

In this video blog we walk through how to create custom basemaps in MapBox and integrate them into your Icon Map in Power BI! We then take it to the next level by configuring dynamic basemaps which we can change using slicers. A big shoutout and thanks to James Dales for creating this awesome visual!! James is always making updates and enhancements to the visual so the best place to get the latest version and some helpful instructions and tips on how to use it is from his dedicated website: https://icon-map.com/index.html. And while you’re there remember to shout James a coffee or 10 to say thanks for creating such a fantastic mapping visual 😀

If you’re keen to learn more about how you can create your own Icon Maps in Power BI, then be sure to check out our Icon Map video blogs where we’ll be exploring real-world applications, creating a simple Icon Map, creating an icon Map using custom WKT and integrating MapBox and Icon Map to design custom base-maps.

Have fun creating your own Icon Maps and thanks for watching!

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