Spreadsheet Mapper 2.0

John Deck was way ahead of Google when he created Berkeley Mapper. His service includes a feature that allows users to input point data into a Google Documents spreadsheet. The data is then added to a database and displayed in Google Maps. Well, Google has just released its second version of its spreadsheet mapper. Similar to Berkeley Mapper, users simply enter their data into a spreadsheet and the appropriate KML and Google Map are generated. There are still many differences between the two tools and Berkeley mapper is more tailored to the needs of collaborative research. Nonetheless, Spreadsheet Mapper offers yet another option for compiling and mapping tabular data.

Comments

[Sean Askay]

Hey John,

Just wanted to give you a little shout-out. It's funny what a little world it is. I'm at Google now because of a long chain of events that started when you inspired me to learn a little PHP while working for Brent (that lead to grad school doing this: http://dms.jamesreserve.edu/, and now Google doing this: http://earth.google.com/outreach/).

It's no Berkeley Mapper, but it's a little tool I'm hoping will help folks create simple little layers. But we've got some bigger things in the works though that might give you a little more competition ;P

Hope all is well in VLSB...

sean

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/02/mapping-with-google-spreadsheets.html