Creating the Multi-line chart Power BI Custom Visual

Plotting lines on maps in Power BI with the default map visuals is impossible. A typical map where you plot out some spatial data looks like below.

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Luckily, ESRI have integrated their powerful ArcGIS map into Power BI and few Power BI developers are aware of what possibilites this opens up.

ArcGIS is a very powerful spatial representation tool. I do not have the expertise to go through all the details of prouct. There is such a thing as a GIS developer and these people work with spatial data and visualization all the time. I'm not one of them. You can check out the ESRI website for more details.

One of the most powerful features of ArcGIS, and the one that we'll use to solve our problem, is that you can create your own map layers. For this, you need to use ESRI's online and free tool.

So let's dive in and see a step-by-step short walkthrough of how to use ArcGIS to add lines on maps and use them in Power BI as in the gif below.

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