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Map Radius - Nightly. Export Excel Data to Google Maps - Nightly. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could export an Excel list of addresses to Google Earth and Google Maps? Thankfully, there are several ways to do this but the only question you need to ask yourself is, “How secure does my data need to be?” Although Google Maps gives you the option to remove your saved maps from search results, a public URL of your map still exists and can be accessed by anyone with that URL. If in doubt, keep your map’s URL to yourself or use Google Earth instead. Mapping Excel Data Using VBA Process Trends created an Excel spreadsheet that incorporates the work of Juice Analytics and simon_a to geocode addresses and prepare them for Google Earth and Google Maps. **Attention Excel 2004 for Mac users, the MapExcelData.xls spreadsheet will not work due to the missing VBA Split function.

Step 1: With macros enabled, open the MapExcelData.xls spreadsheet and go to the KML_details tab. Step 4: Once geocoding is done, click the Gen KML File button and your KML file will be created. Convert Latitude / Longitude in Degrees/Minutes/Seconds to/from Decimal (FCC) USA. Google Maps Latitude, Longitude Popup. Create Maps | BatchGeo. Google Maps API Tutorial. Instead of developing your own page with Google Maps API, it's possible to write a KML file and send it to Google Maps. Google Maps understands a small subset of KML 2.0, and implements markers, polylines, polygons, info windows and a sidebar.

A simple KML file contains an XML header, a KML header and a <Document>... </Document> structure. That <Document> can contain a series of <Placemark>s which each describe one marker or polyline. Here's what a basic XML file looks like <? The whole file must be syntactically valid XML. To send the KML file to Google Maps, put its full URL in the ? Marker Icons That example used the default marker icons. <Placemark><Style><IconStyle><Icon><href> 1</name><description>Some stuff to put in the first info window</description><Point><coordinates>-122.1,37.4,0</coordinates></Point></Placemark> Here's an example Custom Icons Polylines Polygons HTML descriptions.