Hey guys I have been looking around the net and I do not seem to find a viable answer. Here comes: I got a list of 1000ish addresses for which i want to get the coordinates. The dumb thing is that google maps gives me the coodrinates of each point but i gotta go copy/paste 1000 entries to get them, say in excel worksheet. I've seen sites that offer to get me the coords one by one which again is not viable for me. Is there any way to extract the coords of google maps, or any other site that can process large quantities at once?
Thank you
If you can write VB Script you can implement the Google API yourself, someone already wrote it for you: policeanalyst.com/using-the-google-geocoding-api-in-excel.
For bulk conversion just do a Google search, there are a couple of sites that claim to do it, this one works: findlatitudeandlongitude.com/batch-geocode
You can upload your file in text only csv format at
http://geocoder.ca/?batchupload=1&account=1
Then save the results back to csv, shapefile or even print on a map as pdf or png file.
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I want to use the REST Google Photos API to download original photos or videos from Goolge Photos, and I found there is no way to achieve it with the "baseUrl".
I have checked the following pages, but there is not a definitive answer:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/112096115
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80149160
So if there is indeed a way to get the original photos and videos or if there will be one?
The addition of '=d' will not give you the original file! I tested it. The quality and resolution of the image seems to match the original one, but some information like exif metadata (geo location) is missing. As a result, the file size is also smaller than the original. This makes is not usable for backup synchronization where I want the original file.
Actually, I expect from google that they give me automated access to my own original data. It looks like that is currently not the case.
I'm afraid there are currently only two options how to get the original fotos:
Manual download on Google Fotos
Manual download via Google Takeout
Very disappointing!
So I just read through the issue tracker answers you provided, and I noticed that one reply was to add '=d'to the baseUrl.
So example: GET https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lr/AGb3...HG2n=d
I have a website where I can input a list of strings and it'll display the results of each in the same format (basically a table).
What I want to do is to be able to save the results as well as their corresponding parameters (the input string that I searched) and output them into a file to analyze later. So basically capture my input and the output it returns. It's kind of like, if I search "stack" on google, I want my output file to be "stack" and all the displayed results from the search.
I've done some research on web and screen scraping, but I can't find anything that fits my needs. I looked into the curl function in php, but it looks like it can only get the contents of a specific URL, which I don't have since I'll be repeating the searches frequently.
I also looked into the HTML Agility Pack and HttpWatch, but they don't seem to be able to extract contents this dynamically.
I was wondering if there are any ideas or tips that I could use. I was thinking maybe a plugin or application that I could write that captures the parameters of my request (input strings) and the results sent from the server, but I'm not really sure how to do this, any tips? Or maybe there's an existing one that I wasn't able to find?
Thanks in advance!
I have an excel file with information on my company's customers including addresses and latitude and longitude. I need to generate printed street maps showing a reasonable level of detail with pins showing the customers and bubbles displaying their info. Essentially I need to create something that looks like a Thomas Guide except with our customer info layered on to the street maps. I've been looking for DAYS and can't find any software to automate this process.
Currently I'm importing the data into Microsoft MapPoint, which does a fine job of generating the map with all necessary data. However MapPoint can only print what's currently displayed on the screen. So I'm stuck printing at a close zoom level, scrolling over, printing again, and continuing this process ad nauseum.
Is there maybe a way to automate this with VBA in MapPoint? I can find almost no info online about VBA for MapPoint.
Or maybe there's a piece of software out there that can do this at the push of a button. Printing a multi-page map of an area doesn't seem like that crazy of a demand.
Any help would be appreciated.
MapPoint's API is actually pretty well documented in the MapPoint help file, and most of the examples use VB6, which should be adaptable for VBA - you will need to add a reference to MapPoint's object model.
Yes you can automate the printing. Other approaches include copying to the clipboard; save to web page (and extract the Map's GIF image); or to use the GetPictureFromObject(). I recently wrote an article about using the latter from C# (it would be simpler from VB6 or VBA)
You could also print to a very large PDF, see the tips from this newsletter --
http://www.mp2kmag.com/update/mappoint.newsletter/2013-02-18/
Here's a direct link to the article --
http://www.mapforums.com/print-large-multiple-sheet-maps-any-printer-27603.html
Eric
I've created a Google map that loads a KML file as an overlay. It is a map of trailheads for say hiking. What I'm trying to figure out now is how to create a search that will allow visitors to search within the KML's data and show the relevant trailhead/s as results on the Google Map. Is this possible? I have a google search that will let them search for an address, but this does NOT search within the KML file's data for a trailhead.
Ideally the visitor could input an address, say 12345 Main st., Chicago, IL, or something and it would display results that are within a specified vicinity, say ten miles, of that address (ie latitude, longitude).
I'm a little lost as to even where to begin.
thanks for your help!
Davis
I don't know how often your kml file updates, but i recommend storing all the kml data in a database as well to make this easier. Maybe every once in a while re-download the kml file and update the database.
Then its as simple as using the haversine formula and searching the database for nearby trails.
What you're describing sounds like a good job for Fusion Tables. Fusion Tables give you a nice way to store and edit the data (even collaboratively). In addition, there are geospatial columns/data fields you can add (aka, a "Location" column that can be address or lat/long coordinates). Put all the trail heads in your fusion table and you can map them. Let people enter an address or lat/long, and you can query the fusion table to show all trail heads within the user specified distance of that point. See the tutorials to get started.
You can use KML search tool to do this. It supports KML KMZ CSV and GPX. You can find the tool here
I want to create visuals along the lines of CNN's "red-state, blue-state" shadings of the states in the U.S. for my project. I'm planning to do something fancier than just shading the state's shape in a color. Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons (or - if not open source - others) that I can import into Word, Excel, etc. that I can use to show complicated graphs based on states?
I have Map Point, but haven't been able to figure out how to shade the states in a complex way.
you could try google charts, it looks like http://www.woot.com is doing something similar to what you need
Here is a good example using google maps... I've used code like that before.. perhaps from this exact example.
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_states2.htm
EDIT: you might want to consider converting the states.xml into JSON... it'll be smaller (136k of XML right now!) and should load faster in most browsers.
There might be a couple parts to the question you are asking, but to address the first part "Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons...", here's a resource to check out:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_of_the_United_States
It's a list of various SVG(scalable vector graphics) files which can be imported into a number of applications. Basically a giant xml representation of lines and endpoints. This can be directly converted to XAML, if you're into a more programmatic way of charting(ie, C# w/ Silverlight).
However, to address the second part regarding MS Office, Visio can import SVG files for manipulation as well. I'm unsure what type of graphs you were looking for, but I hope this can assist in some small way on your path to awesomeness ;)