The map slicer for Power BI
Icon Map Slicer is a full mapping visual that works as a slicer. Draw circles, icons, heatmaps, hexagons, 3D columns, flows and boundaries from your data, then let readers click, lasso, circle or pan the map to filter every other visual on the page. The selection stays put while they explore the rest of the report.
Seven ways to select
A selection on the map filters every visual on the page, the same way a slicer does, and it stays put while people click around the rest of the report. The map keeps showing everything, with the unselected items faded. Try each tool below: it is a working report.
Click an incident on the map to select it. Hold Ctrl or Shift to add more, and click the background to start again.
Press on the map and draw around the area you want. Everything inside the lasso is selected.
Press where you want the center and drag out the radius. The distance shows on the map as you drag, just as it does in the visual.
Click a borough. Everything inside that boundary is selected. In the visual, any polygon layer from your own files can work this way.
Click an incident to select everything within the buffer around it.
Choose how people travel and for how long, then click the map. The area is calculated in your browser from Icon Map road tiles, by the same engine the visual uses.
Pan and zoom. The report shows only what is on screen, and follows the map as it moves.
Add more report pages and Power BI's Sync slicers keeps this selection in step across all of them.
Incident data in this example is simulated. Borough boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence.
3D terrain
Turn on 3D terrain and every layer follows the ground. Here, Zermatt's hiking trails, railways and cable cars climb toward the Matterhorn on 0.5 m Swiss elevation from the Icon Map Catalog, under swisstopo aerial imagery. Click a trail and it becomes the selection, just as it would filter your report.
Zermatt, Switzerland. Elevation: swisstopo swissALTI3D (Icon Map Catalog). Imagery: swisstopo SWISSIMAGE. Trails, lifts and peaks: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Live maps, not screenshots
Each map below is live. Pan it, zoom it, hover over it. Pick a layer type to see what it draws and which Power BI fields drive it. Everything you draw can be selected to filter the report.
Bind a measure to Circle Size and a category to the color, and every point tells its own story. Size in pixels or in real-world meters, and add outlines and labels in six styles.
500 wildfire detections around the Mediterranean from NASA FIRMS (VIIRS, 18 to 25 September 2026), sized and colored by fire radiative power.
Pick from a built-in icon library, or bind image URLs, data URIs or SVG markup from your model. Add text and emoji badges, and let overlapping icons step aside.
The 24 wind turbines of Lammersdorf and Simmerath in the Eifel, Germany. Positions from OpenStreetMap, details from the Marktstammdatenregister; running and stopped status is simulated.
Show where activity concentrates, weighted by any measure. Radius and intensity adapt as you zoom, with a gradient in your own colors.
10,000 incidents across Düsseldorf (simulated data).
Aggregate points into H3, S2, A5 or Geohash cells with sum, count, average, min or max, then extrude them in 3D. Let the resolution follow the zoom, or count points into your own uploaded shapes, such as sales territories or service areas.
The same Düsseldorf incidents, counted into H3 cells at resolution 9. Hold right-click or Ctrl and drag to tilt.
Connect origins to destinations with straight lines, great circles, glowing 3D arcs with animated comets, bundled flows, flow arcs, flow trees or side-by-side routes. Width, color and dashes all follow your data.
A European supply chain by rail, road and barge. Line width follows pallets per week (illustrative data).
Draw polygons stored as WKT or GeoJSON in your model and raise them in 3D from a base height to a top height, both from your data. Or join your rows to uploaded files, IMDF indoor maps, vector tiles, ArcGIS layers or the Icon Map Catalog, with drill-down through up to five levels.
Dock B at Zurich Airport: every gate, shop and lounge is a WKT polygon in the data, raised from its own base height. Floor plan from OpenStreetMap contributors.
Raise a square or round column at every point, with height in meters or relative to your measure. Combine with globe view, terrain and lighting for maps that stop people scrolling.
Asia's 361 cities of more than a million people (GeoNames). Column height and color follow population.
Basemaps
More than 35 professionally designed Icon Map styles come built in, with no keys to manage, from clean data-visualization canvases to night mode and seasonal satellite imagery. Switch styles below and watch the same data take on a new look.
DataViz, Positron, Dark Matter, Toner, ten Avenue themes, Ordnance Survey Zoomstack and satellite imagery for summer and winter. Place names in 41 languages, 3D buildings, and show or hide roads, labels, land use and boundaries.
ArcGIS styles, tiled services and your own web maps, basemaps from the Icon Map Catalog, plus any MapLibre or Mapbox GL vector style such as MapTiler, raster tile servers and OGC WMS services. Offer readers a choice with the basemap picker.
Spin the world on a 3D globe, drape any basemap over worldwide 3D terrain with hillshading, and set the light, sky, fog and atmosphere to match your story.
Reference layers
Layer reference data under or over your own: boundaries from the Icon Map Catalog, your organization's ArcGIS layers, live feeds, OGC services and more. Reference boundaries can double as selection areas.
More than 30,000 ready-to-use layers, from postcodes to power lines
Feature, map, image and vector tile services, or whole web maps, from ArcGIS Online, Enterprise and Living Atlas. Drawn with their own symbology, labels, pop-ups and legend
GeoJSON, TopoJSON, KML and KMZ, CSV, shapefiles and PMTiles, uploaded or linked and refreshed as often as every 10 seconds, plus raster tiles and Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
OGC WMS, WMTS and WFS services, from your own servers or public sources
Click a boundary from your own files, PMTiles included, to select everything inside it
Day, night and twilight, for now or for any date in your data
Enterprise ready
Power BI Desktop, the Power BI service and mobile apps, Power BI Embedded, Publish to web, Power BI Report Server, and government and regional clouds.
Nothing from your report data is sent to Icon Map. Even travel-time areas and place search are calculated inside the visual.
Run on Power BI Report Server, fully disconnected if you need to, with the complete basemap set hosted on your own servers.
Eastings and northings, State Plane, national grids: around 3,900 EPSG coordinate systems are converted automatically, along with shapefile .prj files.
Load up to 480,000 rows into a single visual and aggregate them on the fly into hexagons, grids or your own polygons.
The visual follows your report's language in English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese, with basemap place names in dozens more.
Buy per user through Microsoft AppSource, or choose usage-based, capacity, enterprise and Report Server licenses. The free developer license covers Icon Map Slicer and Icon Map Pro.
The selection is saved with the report, captured by bookmarks and works with Sync slicers, so every reader picks up where the map left off.
The Icon Map family
The most capable mapping visual for Power BI: every layer type, every basemap, ArcGIS and the Icon Map Catalog.
Learn moreThe same depth of mapping, with the map acting as a slicer that drives the whole report page.
The Microsoft-certified map visual, with a real tiled basemap built in, for PDF, PowerPoint and subscription exports.
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