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How can I connect to Spatial data stored in Google BigQuery using Tableau 2026.2? 

According to the Tableau knowledge base I should be able to work with GEOGRAPHY columns when connecting to Google BigQuery directly.  

However I seem to not see the spatial data when connecting.  

I created a test table, to ensure I do not bring in anything but what I want to test. However when dragging in this table the query I can see Tableau uses to fetch the data only select string, float and integers none of the GEOGRAPHY columns.  

When transforming to Custom SQL, and if I hard-code 1 column manually to ensure it is sent, I can see Tableau wraps this into a sub-query. Whilst the outer query is still only selecting non-Geography columns.   

What can I do to connect to spatial data, is there anything I am missing? 

The demo table is build using this query: 

  1 AS id,

  -- 1. BigQuery GEOGRAPHY: POINT

  ST_GEOGPOINT(5.16, 52.77) AS geography_point,

  -- 2. BigQuery GEOGRAPHY: LINESTRING

  ST_GEOGFROMTEXT(

    'LINESTRING(5.10 52.70, 5.20 52.75, 5.30 52.80)'

  ) AS geography_linestring,

  -- 3. BigQuery GEOGRAPHY: POLYGON

  ST_GEOGFROMTEXT(

    'POLYGON((5.0 52.0, 5.1 52.0, 5.1 52.1, 5.0 52.1, 5.0 52.0))'

  ) AS geography_polygon,

-- 4. WKT als STRING: POINT

  'POINT(5.16 52.77)' AS wkt_point,

  -- 5. WKT als STRING: LINESTRING

  'LINESTRING(5.10 52.70, 5.20 52.75, 5.30 52.80)' AS wkt_linestring,

  -- 6. WKT als STRING: POLYGON

  'POLYGON((5.0 52.0, 5.1 52.0, 5.1 52.1, 5.0 52.1, 5.0 52.0))' AS wkt_polygon,

  -- 7. Latitude als FLOAT64

  52.77 AS latitude,

  -- 8. Longitude als FLOAT64

  5.16 AS longitude,

  -- 9. NULL GEOGRAPHY

  CAST(NULL AS GEOGRAPHY) AS geography_null,

  -- 10. GEOGRAPHY via expliciete cast

  CAST(

    ST_GEOGFROMTEXT(

      'POLYGON((5.4 52.0, 5.5 52.0, 5.5 52.1, 5.4 52.1, 5.4 52.0))'

    )

    AS GEOGRAPHY

  ) AS geography_cast

Table in BigQuery  

When converting to Custom query this is the query in Tableau  

When adding geography_point Tableau sends the query as this, with the column in the sub-query but nothing in the outer query 

APAC Command Centre — a business performance dashboard with drill-down views across Product Performance, Customer Cost/Value, and Operations & Shipping, tracking gross profit, margin, and return rate trends.

Spotify Analysis — an end-to-end music streaming analytics build. Raw data cleaned and joined in Alteryx (900K+ play events, dedup, date/boolean standardization, a custom macro), visualized across an Executive Overview and Content Performance dashboard with parameter-driven Top-N views and a custom dark theme.

Would appreciate feedback on:

• Visual design — readability, contrast, anything that feels off
• Chart choices — anywhere you'd have visualized something differently
• Navigation/drill-down flow — intuitive, or confusing anywhere?
• Anything that reads as unfinished — direct critique welcome

Links below — thanks to anyone who takes a look! 

APAC Command Centre -

Spotify Analysis -

I have a tableau table like as shown below

I don't know why the table border line is not fully displayed. I have set all border lines across "sheet", "rows", "columns" but still this doesn't show properly.

However, when I hover my cursory around `Region of SoldTo` or `Div Chan APAC` or `Subregion Resp APAC`, I am able to see full border for that specific cell. If I move the cursor away from that cell, the border line again vanishes and turns into half as shown in screenshot above

How can I avoid this?