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Geocoding with an address and coordinates

Geocoding with an address and coordinates

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Geocoding with an address and coordinates

Another very exciting thing you can do with fusion tables is geo code addresses. Let's first take a look here at the icons of Lake Tana geography. Notice the first one is the spreadsheet icon and this is the fusion table icon and the third is the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet icon. So you can use these icons to help differentiate what different kinds of files are in your Google Drive environment. Let me also recommend building folders so that you can organize clearly all of your files. So let's do that now. I'm going to create a folder and call it gas_station. Now within gas station, we're going to bring in an Excel spreadsheet that I put in the exercise folder. So first since we're going to convert, to a fusion table we need to start a spreadsheet. So Create, Spreadsheet. And now we'll import that exercise file of gas stations around the Grand Rapids area. First I'll choose File and then Import. And here, I'll go to my gas station folder since that's where I want to place this and I'll…

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