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30 Days of Maps Day 6 - Raster

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James Dales
James Dales
Co-founder of Tekantis

Today is day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge.

The theme for today's map is raster - A map using raster data. Rasters are everywhere, but today’s focus is purely on grids and pixels—satellite imagery, heatmaps, or any continuous surface data.

Whilst most data displayed on the map in Power BI is going to be point or vector data bound to the Power BI data model, it is often useful to add additional reference information in the form of raster data. Icon Map Pro supports a number of sources of raster data including XYZ tiles and WMS layers.

In this report we've overlaid data from the British Geological Survey (BGS) on top of the base map. The Power BI slicer in the top right corner allows you to select from a number of different layers detailing the makeup of the UK's bedrock. To add some additional information, we've overlaid a GeoJSON layer showing the locations of all the UK's quarries.

If you'd like to see how the report was built, you can download it here.