Power BIs Map with Danish post codes - powerbi

I am trying to add data to a Map with Danish postcodes, e.g. 1000-9000 (we have four digits in Denmark).
When I add that into a Map, it scatters all over the world, as Power BI do not recognize it as Danish locations, even my Power BI is setup in Danish and the Map has Danish spelled city names.
I tried to add the regions Jylland, Fyn, Sjælland as a country hierarchy, but doing that moved Jylland (Jutland) as a place in Norway...
I also tried to use city names instead of post codes, but then a city shows up in Sweden...
It does not change whether the post code format is Text or Number format, and I have no option to use a Location format in the query.
Can anyone help me use Danish post codes for Map visualization? : )
Thanks

Ok, I solved it myself!
I found the place in the modelling part where I could force PowerBI to accept my city names, region names etc. and it now works.
More detailed: go into the middle of the three left side windows called Data (not Report, not Model), and click on the column you want to change format of. Then find the Tools section and change the Data Category to for example Address, or Country etc. Hope that helps

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modeling datawarehouse multilanguage

I need your help.
I work for a survey company and I am responsible for creating its architecture and modeling a data warehouse that analyzes the results of an international survey (50 countries).
For the architecture, we decided to create a tabular model in PowerBI to analyze our data and to create our reports.
Here below is the model as I thought:
However, I have a design problem.
Since the survey is international, the wording of my dimensions differs from country to country.
My 1st question:
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My 2nd question:
My model must be multilingual
With my 50 countries, I have several languages (5 languages) and for the same language, I have several variants.
The British English labels differ from the US English labels.
For example, for the Response dimension for France the IdReponse = 1 has the wording 'Vrai' while for the USA the wording is 'True' and for the Britain is 'OK'.
Do you know how to model multi language in a data warehouse?
About question #1 - It's always better, if there is only one model. It will be much easier to maintain. It isn't clear from your question will these 50 reports show the same data (excluding the internationalization of texts like Vrai/True/OK), or each report/country should show it's own subset of the data. In case all reports will show the same data, then definitely it will be better to make one common model and all report use it. You can do this with Power BI by making one "master" report and publishing it, and then the rest of your "per country" reports use it as a data source. And you will need separate reports per country, because you will need to translate the texts (column names, static texts, etc.).
About question #2 - You can create lookup tables in your model (maybe even in the database, it's up to you). The key value (1) will be linked to the key of the table, and there will be columns per language. Depending on the language of the current report, you will select the appropriate column (e.g. French, British, etc.) and even you can fallback to let's say US English, in case there is no translation entered for the current language (e.g. by making a computed column). It is also an option to make separate lookup table per language, but I think it will be more cumbersome to maintain this way.
About question #1: Yes you need only one data model.
About question #2: You Load a question in the language it is asked and the response you get as is in the response DIM. You should create a new column in your response DIM such as Clean_response where you transformed original response to a uniformed value. for example "Vrai", "OK", "True" has same meaning so you may chose to put "Yes" in the Clean_response column. You can also convert different variation of "No", "Nada", "noops", "nah" to a clean value of "No", but keep the original value too.
Labeling a column in the report should be handle in the report code. For example writing a report in French should use your dim column name "Question" and show it as "interroger" as a heading on the report.

Filled Maps in Power BI not working (despite normal maps working!!)

would like to thank you advance.
New to Power BI but have found that filled Maps does not working despite working on same data with normal Maps.
I am trying to produce a filled map using US States (full state name used).
Could this be a bug with Power BI (as this seems very intuitive for it not to work) or am I missing something?
Screenshots below:
1. Screenshot shows that Maps is working and is picking up on the State names.
Screenshot shows when chart type is switched to Filled Maps, State data is not represented as a filled map.
Hi Simon were you ever able to get the filled maps working? If so do you care to share what you did? I have attempted and am not able to get it to work.
Take a look at this post.
Things to try:
Provide some measure or value to the Color saturation field of your filled map visualisation.
Set the data category of your State property to State/Province (Modelling tab)
Change your state names to use geo location terms, e.g. Washington->Washington, DC.
Include country name: Southampton->Southampton, England.
Specify latitude/longitude as well as above.

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If anyone can point me to the documentation for SL, which address the field length limits, right now i need to know about the length limit of invoice number.
I'm not quite sure where the documentation is, but the way I figure out the field length limits is with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). You can look at the databases and various tables/fields and figure out how big each field is as well as myriad of other information.
To find out the invoice number field length with SSMS I would connect to the Dynamics SL Company database (not the system database). The invoice number is a part of the accounts payable (AP) screens, so I would expand the APDOC table. Once you've done that you will see a few folders, one of which is the Columns folder. Expand the Columns folder and you will be presented with a list of fields. Within the parenthesis next to each of those fields you will find the length. In your case you will want to look at the InvcNbr field which is 15 characters for me, which I believe is the out of the box length.
An alternative method is to use customize mode within Dynamics SL. If you open up any screen that has the invoice number field, like Voucher and Adjustment Entry you can open up customize mode using the menu at the top of the screen. Next, open up the Property Window either by using the customize menu or hitting F4. Next, select the field you want to know the length for. For all character fields there will be a property called Mask that will be filled with several Xs. To figure out the field length, you simply need to count the number of Xs.
These 2 methods should be fairly future proof and will allow you to not have to search for the documentation for whatever version of Dynamics SL you might be on.

webservice for autosuggest on city names / postal codes including long-lat coordinates?

i'm looking for a webservice, to be used for an autocomplete field,
where people can fill in either a postal code / city name or both
this service will need all cities in Europe, so we can use it for all country websites.
and in a later stadium we want to keep the world open for asia and america so this would be a plus.
preferably it would also return the long-lat coordinates for the locations,
Now it is a free textfield, after leaving the field, we hit the google geocoding service,
to find coordinates... preferably i would tie these two together.
so we don't have to query 2 services for one thing.
does anyone know of the existance of such a service online somewhere?
or would you suggest to build our own database with cities / postal codes / coordinates?
if so we would need to get the content from somewhere too, and i was trying to avoid that issue :)
I recently searched for a similar service, in vain.
I wanted my users to have auto-complete on entering a city name, and once a city is chosen I needed to pass the name and lat/long onto the Google API. In the end I did this: -
downloaded the geonames allcountries.zip, full extract: this
Imported it into a SQL DB via SSIS (about 7.5 million records!)
Wrote a simple query to extract just the cities (only the PPLC, PPLA and PPLA2 records).
This left me with a manageable table of 9112 records (with lat / long and country code) which covers all the cities in the world. I then wrote my own code to query the data.
Not ideal, but I needed a solution.
I know this post is very old but for thouse who are looking for a simple solution that can be integrated in 5 minutes here is the link:
Geocomplete jQuery...
For my case I followed this steps:
1 - Download the plugin from here.
2 - Add the jquery.geocomplete.js or jquery.geocomplete.min.js file into your javascript folder of your project.
3 - Call this file in script tags on the html page where you have the input field that you have to autocomplete with cities:
<script src='/PathToTheFile/jquery.geocomplete.js'></script>
4 - To convert an input into an autocomplete field, simply call the Geocomplete plugin in script tags: <script>
$("#IdOfTheInputField").geocomplete(); // Option 1: Call on element.
$.fn.geocomplete("input"); // Option 2: Pass element as argument.
</script>
5- You can check for the complete list of options on the link provided at the top.
Hope that this helped!