Icon Map Pro Features
Icon Map Pro, the new professional version of Icon Map, has been built from the ground up with an extensive set of new features and a simplified interface. This tool offers a robust solution for visualising and analysing geospatial data within Power BI. It is designed for data analysts, GIS specialists, and business intelligence professionals, addressing the need for seamless integration of geographic insights into BI dashboards. Users can effortlessly transform complex geospatial data into actionable visuals, enhancing decision-making and strategic planning with the intuitive low/no-code Power BI interface.
Icon Map Pro contains an extensive list of features to help you create interactive maps in Power BI:
Data-Bound Items
Clustered circles, Heatmap, H3 hexagons, Images and lines, Shapes
Icon Map Pro enables you to draw an impressive range of different types of objects on your map, and locate and format them based on data in your Power BI semantic model.
The different types of data-bound items include:
- Circles - including clustering
- Images - from external URLs or data:// URLs including SVG support
- Lines - straight, curved and geodesic.
- Heatmaps
- H3 hexagons - from point data or H3 indexes
- Shapes stored in your Power BI dataset in Well Known Text (WKT) or GeoJSON format
- Shapes loaded from externally hosted files in ESRI Shapefile, KML or GeoJSON format
- Shapes uploaded from local files in ESRI Shapefile, KML or GeoJSON format
- Shapes loaded from vector tiles
- Shapes sourced from ESRI ArcGIS feature layers
All with comprehensive support for Power BI's conditional formatting options.
From version 1.0.0.2 you can specify a specific coordinate reference system (CRS) (eg British National Grid eastings and northings) for your source data and the coordinates are automatically translated to longitude and latitude coordinates and displayed on the map.
Map Backgrounds
Icon Map Pro, Azure Maps, ESRI, Mapbox, Google Maps, Ordnance Survey
Icon Map Pro comes with its own background mapping built from OpenStreetMap data and is available in a number of styles. If you would like to include a third-party's background maps within your report, then we have pre-configured support for:
You will need to provide an API key from the third party provider in order to use these services.
In addition to Icon Map Pro's background mapping and the pre-configured third party providers, it's possible to add your own custom URLs supporting a wide range of additional providers and services:
- Raster tiles
- Vector tiles
- Custom image - Coming soon
- WMS layers
Overlays and Reference Data
Traffic from Azure Maps, Weather from Azure Maps, Daylight Terminator, WMS - from British Geological Survey
Icon Map Pro provides the ability to add additional reference information overlaid on top of the background map.
Examples include:
- Place names
- Daylight terminator
- Shapes loaded from an external URL or uploaded file
- Custom maps layers from raster or WMS sources
- ESRI ArcGIS feature layer
- Traffic from Azure Maps and Google Maps
- Weather from Azure Maps and OpenWeatherMap
ArcGIS, traffic and weather layers require a third party API key.
Controls
Distance measurement tool, Lasso, Scale, Control icons
Icon Map Pro provides a number of map controls adding additional interaction options, or ability to interpret the map.
- Zoom
- Zoom lock - temporarily disable auto-zoom from cross-highlighting and filtering
- Scale in metric, imperial and nautical units
- Lasso tool to select specific elements (in addition to multi select)
- Distance measurement tool
- Attribution - add map attribution text to ensure compliance with third-party providers