# What does this error mean: "WARN Infinite extent for field "rate": \[Infinity, -Infinity\] Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 86: unknown element "blank""?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** first-steps\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-this-error-mean-warn-infinite-extent-for-field-rate-infinity-infinity-fontconfig-warning-etc-fonts-fonts-conf-line-86-unknown-element-blank/34587 "2020-02-13T16:49:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aizzaac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@Aizzaac](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Aizzaac)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-this-error-mean-warn-infinite-extent-for-field-rate-infinity-infinity-fontconfig-warning-etc-fonts-fonts-conf-line-86-unknown-element-blank/34587/1 "2020-02-13T16:49:13Z")

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Hi

This questions is related to this other one: [https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-vegalite-read-my-topojson-file/34546/12](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-vegalite-read-my-topojson-file/34546/12)

The goal is to make a choropleth map.  
I was succesful in reading a topojson file. Now I have to read a dataframe (df\_splunk). This dataframe has many columns but “count” is the one to be used as it will give the intensity of color to the map.

This is my code:

```julia
@vlplot(width=800, height=600) +
@vlplot(
    mark={
        :geoshape
    },
    data={
        values=JSON.parsefile("/home/juliana/roc/Data/Topojson/disa_ONT_region.topojson"),
        format={
            typ=:topojson,
            feature=:disa_ONT_region
        }
    },
    transform=[{
        lookup=:featureId,
        from={
            data=df_splunk,
            key=:featureId,
            fields=["count"]
        }
    }],
        projection={
        typ=:albersUsa
    },
    color="rate:q"
)

```

The error that I am getting is the following:

```julia
WARN Infinite extent for field "rate": [Infinity, -Infinity]
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 86: unknown element "blank"
WARN Infinite extent for field "rate": [Infinity, -Infinity]
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 86: unknown element "blank"

```

I get the same error when I just want to make a barplot of the same dataframe:

```
df_splunk |> @vlplot(:bar, x=:count, y="featureId:o")

```

Even when using a very small dataframe (df\_x). But at least here I can see the plot.

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**Author:** ![danielp3011](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@danielp3011](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/danielp3011)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-this-error-mean-warn-infinite-extent-for-field-rate-infinity-infinity-fontconfig-warning-etc-fonts-fonts-conf-line-86-unknown-element-blank/34587/2 "2020-08-10T12:29:20Z")

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I get the same error. Has anybody a clue how to solve this?