Geospatial issue - Points on a Map - Ambiguous postcodes, but only when a 'color' dimension is added

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Hi all,

I’m looking for a sense check on how I am approaching mapping UK postcodes on a map.

I have set up my geo data for UK postcodes (outcode only). These render well, I only have 5 ambiguous records due to incorrect postcodes. No problem here. My county and city data is not consistent enough yet, so I’ve not included those in the hierarchy.

SCR-20220916-mau

SCR-20220916-mbo
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But as soon as I add in a dimension to the colour well, I get 1000s of ambiguous rows, and they all associate with the US (I’m in the UK). No data is displayed.

SCR-20220916-me0
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Has anyone else experienced this behaviour with map views? Am I doing anything wrong, or is this a bug? Thank you

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This is a bug, I have opened a ticket for the concerned team to resolve the issue. For now, if you need you can use a workaround to get unblocked while the team is resolving the issue.

  1. Edit dataset
  2. Create a calculated field for Country
  3. Change datatype to “Country”
  4. Add to the hierarchy that you have created
  5. Publish and visualize
    Points_On_Map_Issue_Workaround
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Thank you, the work around is working for me.