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Azure Maps Visual UPDATE

  Who doesn’t want updates to technology? This guy.   I mean, I love them- they are great – I work for a tech company! Haha. But honestly, sometimes updates can induce a feeling of dread as often an “update” is just a euphemism for “something new to learn.”   And don’t these updates seem to come out JUST when you finally feel comfortable with the *last* version that came out?   That’s what happened a month ago with the July Power BI Desktop update.   The Power BI team put out a fantastic new visual Azure Maps visual.   I was excited to start using it but then realized very soon that my data set would not work.   Why?   I didn’t have the latitude and longitude coordinates for my geography table.   This was an easy fix though because I know I could do a merging of queries as long as I could find a good data source of latitude and longitude.   If you are looking for a free resource that has a numerous amount of US latitude and longit...