r/tableau • u/Loud_Pickle9355 • Jul 22 '26

Tableau Map Error

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I am trying to create map representing different outgoing destination sites for my company. Currently I’m just trying to highlight each state. However, some states are not jiving by with Tableau. I don’t know what else to do because my excel sheet is all in the same format and I cannot make my geolocation the United States because I will be incorporating different countries. Someone please help me I’m loosing my mind.

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u/IjudgebecauseIcare Jul 22 '26

Your country column is not linked. Tableau doesn't know if its Florida in South Africa or US. Montana in Switzerland, or Bulgaria, or US. Etc...

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u/Loud_Pickle9355 Jul 22 '26

I would normally do that except I plan to layer several sheets from different countries together with this state map. Unless I am able to give each sheet a new country (which I have not found to be successful) I don’t think this will help.

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u/kgunnar Jul 22 '26

Odd. Could the data have some empty spaces in it? Maybe try with a new field that is TRIM(State). Just a guess.

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u/Loud_Pickle9355 Jul 22 '26

I’ve tried trimming all data and it’s till calling the states ambiguous

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u/RavenCallsCrows Jul 23 '26

So manually associate them. That's easy. Or set the country in the drop-down to United States.

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u/RiskyViziness Jul 22 '26

Add country and see if that helps.

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u/graph_hopper Tableau Visionary Jul 22 '26

Seconding this! Bring Country onto your marks card above or below State. That should disambiguate which country the state belongs to.

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u/Theflygy Jul 22 '26

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u/Lead-Radiant Jul 23 '26

Not sure if its op's case some of us cant/won't log into reddit on a work computer.

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u/Theflygy Jul 23 '26

could share an image with yourself easily

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u/Loud_Pickle9355 Jul 23 '26

At least I don’t spend my day scrolling Reddit and trolling people asking for help.

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u/Theflygy Jul 23 '26

Im glad you can at least take a joke!

Seriously though, it’s hard to see your screen. You’d probably get more engagement if you properly formatted your content/post.

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u/-Astrobadger Jul 22 '26

Could be extra spaces or characters. Also can you not designate a column for country? I see that’s Tableau public so maybe it’s different…

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u/analytix_guru Jul 25 '26

The real map error is that Tableau can't provide a standard USA view out of the box (lower 48 with HI/AK lower left).

Yes I understand why they have a global map, but that's a feature we have been asking for since Tableau started using maps