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Azure Maps reference layer

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Azure Maps reference layer

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- [Narrator] The Power BI Azure Map Visual enables us to add reference layers as map outlines. We can connect to these reference layers locally on our computers, and more recently we can use the URL. Originally, the reference layer only supported GeoJSON files, but now more recently, it also supports keyhole markup language, well-known text and shapefile formats. Let's say that we're looking to analyze population numbers for the cities in California just north of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. In Power BI, I already imported this population data for each city, along with their corresponding geographical labels. Let's create an Azure Map Visual with them by putting the city and state labels as the locations and the population numbers as the size. This automatically creates a map consisting of a circle or bubble layer, where the size of the bubble indicates the size of the population for each of the city locations on the map. Let's also put the county and the…

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