Using custom geocoding

Tableau can recognize many locations as geographical values and assign geographical coordinates to them, allowing us to map them without actually knowing their exact coordinates. But, sometimes, we would like to use map locations that Tableau does not recognize as geographical data and can't generate longitude and latitude for.

In those cases, we can provide Tableau with the geographical coordinates ourselves using custom geocoding.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use two datasets: one we want to create our views from, and one that contains custom geocoding data. Make sure you have both the Serbian_provinces_population_size.csv and Province_geocoding.csv datasets saved to your device...