How to visualize over 1.000.000 Geo-Values in Google Data Studio

Google makes Data Studio even more powerful by connecting it even more with Google Maps.

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With Google Data Studio you can create geo charts based on Google Maps. Google Maps in Data Studio can be customized and connected to all data sources that contain valid geographic fields. Cool enough, Google has now increased the limit here.

You can now display up to 100,000 latitude and longitude values in a Google map (previously 10,000). For spatial latitude, longitude, and BigQuery data, you can also increase this limit from 100,000 to 1 million [1].

I already tried it with BigQuery and I am quite pleased with the new feature.

Geo Viz wit Google Maps and Data Studio — Image by Author

This way you can visualize locations, of course, but also polygons wonderfully in Data Studio.

For me, it also makes sense that Google takes this step, here arise several advantages. On the one hand, these new features could convince customers more of…