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Geocoding with an address and coordinates
From the course: GIS on the Web
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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Google Maps options for map development2m 47s
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Mapping through Google Drive2m 8s
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Google Fusion Tables with Google spreadsheets3m 10s
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Geocoding with an address and coordinates3m 39s
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Merging your data3m 16s
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Visualization symbologies3m 54s
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Customizing your pop-up windows3m 58s
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How to analyze your map3m 35s
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Publishing your work4m 17s
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Exporting Fusion Tables to KML2m 27s
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Making lines and polygons in Google Earth11m 47s
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