Adding Location Intelligence with Power Map - Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools for Excel Analysts - page 106

Figure 6-3: The Power Map window provides a Tour task pane, the Bing map, and a Layer Manager task pane.

Because your data is geocoded with Microsoft Bing, you need access to the Internet to
use the Power Map Add-In. As the data points are processed, the status bar displays the
progress of plotting all the required data points.

Note

Choosing geography and map level
It's important to note that Power Map initially plots the points on your map based on what it thinks
you're trying to do regarding your geographical data. If you have multiple geographical data points,
you need to tell Power Map which geospatial level you want to plot.

When you add data to Power Map, it creates a map “layer” that can be configured and customized to
show a particular geospatial visualization. The first layer is, by default, called Layer 1.

Select the geography level you want to see in the Layer Manager task pane, which determines the
data points plotted. For example, selecting Address gives you the map shown at the top of Figure 6-4.
Selecting State gives you the map shown at the bottom of Figure 6-4. Click Next when you've
selected your geography.