If you won't need to include any personal data, you could use Google
Fusion tables to plot locations from your spreadsheet. Google's
tutorial is at https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2527132
Cheers, Mia
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On 20 November 2013 15:30, Alexander von Lünen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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