Bing Maps in public Power BI reports published to the web

Ben Regier

You may have already seen the announcement that Bing Maps Enterprise is being retired. My understanding is that this affects Power BI map reports as well.

For most reports, the migration process is simple. Make sure you're using an updated version of Power BI Desktop, open your report, and it should ask you if you want to change your Bing map to an Azure map. Done!

However, one difference is that Bing maps supports publishing to the web, but Azure maps does not. I have one map report that we use on our website, and that will not work with Azure maps.

So… before I go down the rabbit hole of researching what my other options are for that map report, I thought I'd ask here. Have any of you dealt with this migration for web reports yet? Any good solutions or alternatives to Azure Maps that I should know about?

Thanks!

Alex Wong

@Ben Regier
miss this announcement you talking about. when is it going to be offline. If you got an article, please share.

My heatmap is still working properly for now, but there are other map visualization that can be used, so will see how it affects

Glen Hutson

@Alex Wong

Check out https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/news/microsoft-announces-vision-for-next-generation-of-enterprise-maps

Alex Wong

@Glen Hutson
June 2028, not worrying about it for now.

and, I also do not think it affects us that uses Power BI visualization. Seems to be the undlying service that support the visualization for map on power bi is changing, and since MS is the author of the map visualization, they are the one that's affected and will have to update their visualization to utilize the new Azure Map service.

In a nutshell, I think there's nothing we need to do.

Ben Regier

@Alex Wong
2028 for enterprise accounts, 2025 for everyone else.

Though it's devilishly hard to get a straight answer on this, I've seen Microsoft employees on Power BI forums saying that it will affect BI reports. The fact that Power BI Desktop automatically prompts you to change your visualizations to Azure Maps seems to support this.

In any case, it seems likely enough to affect us that I want to keep it on my radar.

Alex Wong

@Ben Regier
I'm using this visualization:

did not get a prompt.

I will keep an eye out as well, thanks

Ben Regier

@Alex Wong
Have you updated Power BI Desktop recently? I didn't get the prompt until I updated.

Alex Wong

@Ben Regier

is the same version as the one from the download page for Power BI Desktop.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494

So I think I have the latest version