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Shivangi Pandit
Copper Contributor
Jun 28, 2018

Unable to create map charts in Excel 2016 for regions and cities

Hello All,

 

I have created a map chart for Germany at city and region level.However excel is not able identify different cities or regions it is showing only one data point for entire germany.

Please see attached xls.What i want is different regions/cities should be highlighted as per data points.

Is there any way to do this or it is a "location search" problem?

 

Awaiting any reply.

 

Thanks.

Charts & Visualizing Data
Excel Desktop

2 Replies

  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    Diamond Contributor
    Jun 28, 2018

    Hi Shivangi,

     

    Map Chart is sensitive to columns name (and not only). If you rename your Region column to Province it more or less works, see second sheet in attached.

     

    And it doesn't work on cities level

    Map charts can only plot high-level geographic details, so cities, latitude and longitudes, and street address mapping isn’t supported.

    See Limitations here https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-a-map-chart-f2cfed55-d622-42cd-8ec9-ec8a358b593b

     

    • Ian Matthews's avatar
      Ian Matthews
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 13, 2019

      There is a way to map city data in Excel and after playing around with this for hours I figured it out, wrote it up and created a video 

      https://www.urtech.ca/2019/01/solved-video-easy-way-to-plot-cities-on-a-map-using-excel/ 

       

      I hope this helps... I would have saved me a pile of frustration.

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