Earth Outreach. This tutorial shows you how to enter data in an on-line spreadsheet to generate a set of placemarks in Google Earth and Maps. Google's web-based, collaborative editing allows you and your team members to simultaneously enter data and instantly publish updates. Using this tool you could: showcase your organization's projects, program sites or partners; map your offices, volunteers, or resources; or visualize your data on local, regional or global scales. Some of the new and improved features in Spreadsheet Mapper version 3 include: Create 1000 placemarks - add more if needed. Six simplified balloon design templates - add more if needed Simplified publication process Additional customization options Spreadsheet Mapper 3 uses Google Apps Scripts to help generate the KML placemarks, and to provide useful tools. Tutorial Contents: Before You Begin Spreadsheet Mapper is a powerful tool for mapping point locations.
Let's get started... Open the starter spreadsheet Enter your own information. Map Icons Collection | Google Maps Icons, Map Markers, Free POI Icons, GIS Symbols. Google Vector Layers - Jason Sanford. There’s no shortage of geo data providers these days. It’s quite easy to publish data and make it available to the world in minutes using software like ArcGIS Server, Geocommons, Arc2Earth and CartoDB. What’s sometimes not easy as it could be, is taking data from these providers and showing them on your slippy map of choice, Google Maps. For the past few months in my downtime I’ve been working on a library that makes it much easier to view and interact with your data in these services — Google Vector Layers.
With just a few lines of code you can view data from a number of geo web services, symbolize it based on property values and create highly customized InfoWindows using the feature data. The library works by listening to map events (pan and zoom) and then fetching features within the map’s extent after each event. Features There are number of things that make this library quite handy: The documentation and demo pages have much more detail about all of these features.
Links. ActionScript/Flash/Flex Library for Geonames | Ryan Stewart – Ri. Using Geolocation with Flex in the Browser | Flex and Flash Deve.