title: maps in power BI: how bing resolve city names, world cities database?
body: <p>I am running into an issue with Maps from Power BI.</p>
  
  <p>I have a list of city name around the world in a different language than English.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z2no8.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Excel containing distinct city name in Italian</a></p>
  
  <p>Using the visualizations Maps I get no feedback (i.e. map remain empty), so I started to translate the name into English, add country, state and continent. Nothing. The map remain still empty. I even change the data type of each column. NO-THING.
  Finally I insert the Latitude and Longitude and then the visualization shows me what I want.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mBMBd.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Full geographics description database</a></p>
  
  <p>1) Does anyone knows how bings works? I though it will to the best guess, but nothing happens till I insert the lat and long.</p>
  
  <p>2) Does anyone knows about a database with the lat and Long of cities around the world?</p>