This option is in the Geographic Roles section of the Edit Locations dialog box. You can fix some ambiguous locations by specifying the Country/Region and/or State/Province for each city from a specific field in your data, either by hard-coding a value if your data only spans one state or country, or by telling Tableau which fields to refer to for that information. Locations can be listed in the Edit Locations dialog box. The Edit Locations dialog lets you clarify unrecognized and ambiguous values to locations in Tableau.

Note: If the special values indicator is not visible, you can also select Map > Edit Locations

In the Special Values dialog box, select Edit Locations.

In the bottom right corner of the view, click the special values indicator that lists the number of unknown locations in your map.When this happens, you can correct the unknown or ambiguous locations in your data using the Special Values menu. Sometimes, unknown locations can be prompted because there's a misspelling or another issue. Edit locations in the Special Values menu If there is a hierarchy in the data pane, Tableau will automatically use the appropriate levels of the hierarchy to solve location ambiguities. If your data set includes ambiguous locations (for example, 'Aberdeen,' which could appear in multiple states or countries), adding another geographic field, like State or Country, to the view defines the correct location for that data. When this happens, you can add additional information to the view to define locations, or canĮdit the unknown location names to map to known locations. This may happen if there is a location or abbreviation that Tableau does not recognize, or if the location is ambiguous and could exist in multiple places. Marked as unknown in the lower right corner of the map view. Sometimes Tableau will not recognize one or more of the

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