You can send any “comments/code improvements/ suggestions” directly to: gygulyas -at- yahoo.ca Very cool! Gyula made use of Geocoder.ca for the goecoding of Canadian addresses. It uses Microsoft XML, V3.0, so it works with a couple versions of Excel prior to 2003 Gyula Gulyas took my original Google Maps in Excel and made two changes to it that some readers may be interested in:Ģ. I haven’t tried the virtual earth api yet. The satellite imagery in my neighborhood is much nicer than google maps, and the interface has some additional cool tricks. Microsoft unveiled their new mapping service this week: Virtual Earth (Opens in new window since they have the back button disabled). You can do much more with google maps than just plotting points, I particularly like this example: gMap Workout Tracker
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To create your own solution you’ll need a Google Developer Key, a Website to host the page, and Excel 2003.Ĭlick this link to download the Google Map in Excel SpreadsheetĪ Canadian Google Maps In Excel that works with pre-2003 Excel versions. That’s what I’ve tested it on, for Excel 2002 I believe the “import vba code” is slightly different and minor tweaking will be needed. To use the spreadsheet you’ll need Excel 2003. Remember to input your own Google API Key in the Head section.)ģ.I set margin:0px to remove the whitespace around the map, trying to make it look less like a web browser control and more like a google control.
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If you’d like to create a similar page you can view my page code here: googlemap.txt. Click this link to see my webpage that receives latitude and longitude as variables and returns the respective map (look in the address bar). To experiment with sending an address and having return the Latitude and Longitude back to Excel, I created a Geocoding workbook to experiment with.Ģ. Finally there’s a web browser control in Excel that navigates to this new address.ġ. Excel sends this geocoded information to the server, where I have a google map that receives latitude and longitude as variables and displays the respective map via the Google Map API.ģ. The address is sent to to be converted to Latitude and Longitude (required to map a location on google maps), and the result is returned to the spreadsheet.Ģ. I thought about also throwing in the current weather report, but refrained for now.ġ. The Google Map Spreadsheet uses two API’s to work, the Api and Google Maps Api.