Qlik Sense Maps show me the wrong position

[DanijelH]

Hello, everyone,

I have a strange problem. I downloaded a KML file with a 5-digit postcode area for Germany.

I loaded this in Qlik Sense. The interesting one, when I look at Nuremberg for example, I see the majority of areas correctly. However, I have a case, at least I didn't notice any more that a postcode area is not located in Nuremberg but somewhere in Mexico.

I looked at the areas, but there all values start with 11.xx or 49.xx...

Did any of you have a similar problem?

Enclosed a small example.

greetings

[Ivan_Bozov]

Hi! This happens quite often if the same postal code / same city name exists in two different countries. However, you can associate your data to a country. Read this topic: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-App-Development/Cities-poorly-placed-in-a-map/td-p/71468

[DanijelH]

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for the tip.

I created a field with the country and defined it as country.

Unfortunately nothing has changed on the interface.

Do you have another idea?

[Ivan_Bozov · Accepted solution]

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@DanijelH wrote:

Do you have another idea?

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Yup. Load postal code + country code separated by comma as shown below:

Viel Spaß! 😉

[DanijelH]

Hi Ivan,

that's what it is.

I have created two fields. Country and zip code with country code.

Now it looks like it should look 🙂

Maybe you can explain to me why this works now or what the error was?

Danke! 

[Ivan_Bozov]

Hi,

There is no error as such, just that a place in Mexico is defined the same way as in Germany. That's why you need to tell Qlik what is the right country. It also happens with city names, e.g. there are 5 cities called Vienna in the US.