Comments on: Learn More http://makingmaps.wordpress.com Resources and Ideas for Making Maps Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:52:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: John Krygier http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/learn-more/#comment-460 John Krygier Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:16:59 +0000 http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/learn-more/#comment-460 Both Google Maps and Google Earth need latitude/longitude to plot points. The file format both use is KML (or, if compressed KMZ). If you have your crime locations plotted out in MapInfo, figure out if you can export to KML or KMZ format. I don't know MapInfo, but other software packages now provide KML export, or there are free or low cost utilities which generate KML files. You can then open them in Google Earth or Maps. Another route to getting lat/long is to use street addresses, if that information is included in the police reports. I have my students do this using a web site called <a href="http://www.batchgeocode.com/" rel="nofollow">BatchGeoCode.</a> Go to the URL below (a class exercise) and scroll down to the "BatchGeoCode.com" section for step by step instructions. http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_exer/04_222_exer04.html I hope one of these two options work! John K. Both Google Maps and Google Earth need latitude/longitude to plot points. The file format both use is KML (or, if compressed KMZ).

If you have your crime locations plotted out in MapInfo, figure out if you can export to KML or KMZ format. I don’t know MapInfo, but other software packages now provide KML export, or there are free or low cost utilities which generate KML files. You can then open them in Google Earth or Maps.

Another route to getting lat/long is to use street addresses, if that information is included in the police reports. I have my students do this using a web site called BatchGeoCode.

Go to the URL below (a class exercise) and scroll down to the “BatchGeoCode.com” section for step by step instructions.

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_exer/04_222_exer04.html

I hope one of these two options work!

John K.

]]> By: megan ambrosio http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/learn-more/#comment-449 megan ambrosio Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:55:22 +0000 http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/learn-more/#comment-449 I have made beautiful crime maps using MapInfo for years and now I am charmed by showing buildings and cars on streets that Google provides. But I cannot seem to get my dots on the map without putting each one on individually. Can you kindly give me some guidance. I have google earth plus and of course i have google maps. I have no latitude or longitude data. Police Officers do not know what those mean and have no access to that information when they write a report. I think that MapInfo may provide that information but I am not certain. Thank you very much. ps. once I know how to do something I can be quite creative but without the initial link, the forest is very dark. Megan I have made beautiful crime maps using MapInfo for years and now I am charmed by showing buildings and cars on streets that Google provides. But I cannot seem to get my dots on the map without putting each one on individually. Can you kindly give me some guidance. I have google earth plus and of course i have google maps. I have no latitude or longitude data. Police Officers do not know what those mean and have no access to that information when they write a report. I think that MapInfo may provide that information but I am not certain. Thank you very much.
ps. once I know how to do something I can be quite creative but without the initial link, the forest is very dark. Megan

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