Create a map

Fabric Maps lets you visualize spatial data—static or real time—directly in Microsoft Fabric. By creating a map, you can explore patterns and relationships across space and time that are difficult to see in traditional charts and tables.

Prerequisites

Enable Maps in tenant settings

Important

Only the tenant admin is authorized to perform this step.

  1. Go to OneLake catalog > Govern > Configurations > Tenant settings.
  2. Search for Map. For more information, see About tenant settings.
  3. If your Fabric capacity is located outside the EU or US regions, you must enable the Azure Maps services tenant settings. Begin by searching for Azure Maps services in the tenant settings, then toggle the option Data sent to Azure Maps can be processed outside your capacity's geography region, compliance boundary, or national cloud instance to Enabled.
  4. Select Apply.

Note

Even if these tenant settings are turned off, you can still create and open Map items. In this limited experience, the map background is blank because Azure Maps basemaps aren't available, but the data layers you add continue to display. Ask your tenant admin to turn the settings back on to restore the full Azure Maps experience.

For more information, see Azure Maps service tenant settings – Microsoft Fabric.

Screenshot of tenant settings for Map showing the toggle button for the specified setting.

New map

Maps exist within the context of a workspace, and every map is associated with the workspace it was created in.

To create a new map:

  1. Select the desired workspace.
  2. Select + New item.
  3. In the New item window, select Map. Screenshot of the New item page with Map filtered.
  4. On the New Map dialog, enter a name, confirm the workspace, and select Create. Screenshot of the New Map page with a name for the map and default workspace.
  5. A new map is created in your workspace. Screenshot of a newly created Map editor in Microsoft Fabric, showing an empty map canvas.

Visualize spatial data

After creating a map, you can add layers from lakehouses, eventhouses and KQL databases, Ontology items, external feature services, and external WMS or WMTS imagery services. For information about the available layer categories and data sources, see Fabric Maps layers.

Next steps

Fabric Maps layers

Configure map settings

Configure layer settings

Share a map

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