Comments on: Creating Simple Maps with Microsoft Excel http://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/ Geographic Information Systems, Maps, GPS, and GIS Jobs Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce mcphersonhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-2071 Bruce mcpherson Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:19:39 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-2071 I just came across this post after having gone through an exercise of comparing he main mapping Apis while developing a way of geocoding and mapping straight out of excel.Take a look at how to do that and download example excel workbooks here.. Ramblings.mcpher.com.The capabilities of modern Apis are much more useful Than these kind of excel maps.Bruce I just came across this post after having gone through an exercise of comparing he main mapping Apis while developing a way of geocoding and mapping straight out of excel.

Take a look at how to do that and download example excel workbooks here.. Ramblings.mcpher.com.

The capabilities of modern Apis are much more useful Than these kind of excel maps.

Bruce

]]> By: Anitahttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-1028 Anita Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:26:32 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-1028 Thanks for all the suggestions I need to create a map showing point where my company has trained and I have the information in an Excel spreasheet with the XY coordinates I took from Google Earth. Thanks for all the suggestions I need to create a map showing point where my company has trained and I have the information in an Excel spreasheet with the XY coordinates I took from Google Earth.

]]> By: Zahidhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-221 Zahid Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:56:05 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-221 That is awsome, since we all use excel so much, i created a mashup of AS3XLS library with ESRI's FLEX API that let you map point data from excel spreadsheet using a web browser. here is the url http://zachsgeospatial.blogspot.com/2010/06/mapping-point-data-from-excel.html I like your approach, since you can do more than just points. That is awsome, since we all use excel so much, i created a mashup of AS3XLS library with ESRI’s FLEX API that let you map point data from excel spreadsheet using a web browser. here is the url
http://zachsgeospatial.blogspot.com/2010/06/mapping-point-data-from-excel.html
I like your approach, since you can do more than just points.

]]> By: BeGraphichttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-220 BeGraphic Thu, 06 May 2010 17:43:56 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-220 BeGraphic gives for free thematic maps, fully dynamic with your live data.10 000 additional maps are given to users who ask for them using their business email.These choropleth maps are the free part of an Excel addin focused in new data visualization. BeGraphic gives for free thematic maps, fully dynamic with your live data.

10 000 additional maps are given to users who ask for them using their business email.

These choropleth maps are the free part of an Excel addin focused in new data visualization.

]]> By: jeffhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-219 jeff Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:09:48 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-219 Samir, Rafael, Luca,I was just looking for a similar solution and found a solution at www.mapcrossing.com.Downloaded their free demo for one country and it allowed me to create easily a heat map with the required information. Gonna use this solution for the countries I need it for. Samir, Rafael, Luca,

I was just looking for a similar solution and found a solution at http://www.mapcrossing.com.

Downloaded their free demo for one country and it allowed me to create easily a heat map with the required information. Gonna use this solution for the countries I need it for.

]]> By: Samirhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-218 Samir Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:42:26 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-218 Luca I would like to see the .xls file that you are using to create the maps. Luca
I would like to see the .xls file that you are using to create the maps.

]]> By: Rafael Martinezhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-217 Rafael Martinez Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:50:46 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-217 Luca I would like to see the .xls file that you are using to create the maps. Luca
I would like to see the .xls file that you are using to create the maps.

]]> By: luca mestronihttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-216 luca mestroni Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:17:31 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-216 hello. please don't laugh: i'm working on MSexcel macros (visual basic scripting) to create simple thematic maps within an excel file. the results seems promising: using the graphical editing functions available, you can create maps on a graph sheet, provided that you have X/Y coordinates of the objects of your database. currently i can manage maps of road network, tracing road links as simple segments ad formatting them (colour, thickness) according to road attributes. also possible maps based od points/circles. i can send the .xls file to whom is interested. hello.
please don’t laugh: i’m working on MSexcel macros (visual basic scripting) to create simple thematic maps within an excel file.
the results seems promising: using the graphical editing functions available, you can create maps on a graph sheet, provided that you have X/Y coordinates of the objects of your database.
currently i can manage maps of road network, tracing road links as simple segments ad formatting them (colour, thickness) according to road attributes. also possible maps based od points/circles.
i can send the .xls file to whom is interested.

]]> By: Peterhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-215 Peter Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:24:08 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-215 Microsoft Map, which is a feature of Excel 2000 that creates, displays and enables you to analyze information by geographical region, is not available with Microsoft Excel 2002 and later. To create maps that can be used with data in Microsoft Excel 2002 or later, you can use a mapping program, such as Microsoft MapPoint. Microsoft Map, which is a feature of Excel 2000 that creates, displays and enables you to analyze information by geographical region, is not available with Microsoft Excel 2002 and later. To create maps that can be used with data in Microsoft Excel 2002 or later, you can use a mapping program, such as Microsoft MapPoint.

]]> By: Mark Smithhttp://gislounge.com/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-214 Mark Smith Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:24:27 +0000 http://gislounge.com/features/creating-simple-maps-with-ms-excel/#comment-214 Note - this feature existed in an old version of Excel, and is not present in Office 2003, or Office 2007.If you want to plot excel data on a map, my company has a tool that gives you free read-only maps of your Excel data. Note – this feature existed in an old version of Excel, and is not present in Office 2003, or Office 2007.

If you want to plot excel data on a map, my company has a tool that gives you free read-only maps of your Excel data.

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