Hi Alex,
Very many thanks- I'll check some of these out!
Best wishes
Emily
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Sent: 20 November 2013 15:30
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Subject: Re: Mapping visitors
Hi,
you could use the Google Geocoding API:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
This is a Web Service, which returns the coordinates for a place name as
JSON or XML. I've seen people using the Google Maps Interface directly
from Google Docs as well, i.e. you could list the place names your
visitors come from in a spreadsheet and have these place names geocoded
from Google Docs and mapped onto Google Maps. I am not a great fan of
Google (don't like their terms and conditions) and I use more
sophisticated GIS. If you don't like to use Google and are able (or have
someone around you being able) to do some basic programming in Perl or
Python etc, you could use the GeoNames service (www.geonames.org) to
geocode the place names and then map it onto OpenStreetMap
(www.openstreetmap.org).
Hope this helps,
Alex
On 20/11/2013 14:47, Emily Hicks wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know of a good website or method online for mapping visitors- e.g. I have lots of data from our visitors book about where people come from, and would like to be able to input it somehow to create me some useful statistics rather than working out something on a spreadsheet.
>
> Many thanks
> Emily
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