Comments on: Importing Spreadsheet Data Into Google Earth

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:16:42 +0000

As long as the data you’re importing isn’t proprietary or commercial, there’s no problem at all – import away.

By: Nav Kaur

Nav Kaur — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:31:05 +0000

No I meant using csv2kml to import files into Google. There are no legal implications of doing that are there?

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:53:58 +0000

Google Earth strongly supports use by non-profits; see their outreach page for more info:

http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html

By: Nav Kaur

Nav Kaur — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:30:12 +0000

Hi,

Are there any legal implications with Google for using this. I work for a non-profit client and I would like to know. It seems too good to be true so far! Thanks for the blog.

Nav

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:44:20 +0000

Search the “geocoding” category on this blog for many different ways to do this.

By: Tom Waste

Tom Waste — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:26:08 +0000

Very helpful indeed, but I still don’t know how to convert street+number+city to longitude+latitude. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanx, Tom.

By: colaboy

colaboy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:03:03 +0000

Thanks for this great find, saved hours of work.

Just a note to users of localised versions of excel: CSV really means comma separated – in my Swedish version the default separator is semicolon and csv2kml is picky.

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:13:57 +0000

Take a look in the “geocoding” category on this blog, and you’ll find many solutions for this. And there’s a new post up today on the new version 3 of MapChannels, which makes it easy to add spreadsheet data to Google Maps and display it on your website.

By: JackieS

JackieS — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:46:19 +0000

Data with street addresses/geocoding. You mention that you plan to do a follow-up post on this topic — have you written it yet?
I’m a volunteer for a non-profit. I know how to add places one by one, have an Excel spreadsheet with addresses of all the sites, and want to add sites to Google Maps.

Thanks.

By: Leszek Pawlowicz

Leszek Pawlowicz — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:12:57 +0000

Having checked the macro, Excel, my explanation, and the explanation on the Zonums website, everything works fine. Clicking on a sheet tab brings up an empty data sheet you can type your data into, or copy and paste it from another spreadsheet, selecting the data also works if you follow the procedure described above, and a KML file is created successfully. You need to find someone at your end to show you how to use Excel; I can’t do that here in the comments section. Sorry.