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I would like to map the review between two international cities.  I followed the demo and can get this to work for two cities in the same country, or the flows between two countries.  I can’t get the map to work for flows between Miami and Calgary for example.

    

Attached is the workbook I created.  Any ideas would be appreciated.  I’d prefer not to have to geo-code each city and use Tableau’s default geo-coding.

    

Thanks

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  1. Mar 27, 2014, 10:39 PM

    Patrick, I'm not sure where you're going with this but see attached. Also not sure why you say

     

    I’d prefer not to have to geo-code each city and use Tableau’s default geo-coding.

     

    You can do that with 5 clicks and a ctrl-v:

     

    1. Right-Click map
    2. Click View Data
    3. Click the upper left corner (to select all)
    4. Click copy
    5. Click cancel

     

    Press ctrl-v. (Don't right click and expect to click paste, it will be greyed out). But ctrl-v does create a connection to the clipboard and create a new sheet for you. After you do that then rename the lat/longs to get rid of the (generated), just to be safe.

     

    Now you have lat/longs that can be used in calculated fields, unlike the generated ones. Here's the new map:

     

    Patrick, I'm not sure where you're going with this but see attached. Also not sure why you say I’d prefer not to have to geo-code each city and use Tableau’s default geo-coding.

    --Shawn

     

    EDIT: Sheet 3 has all your data in the connection.

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