[jhb] Re: OT: Plot multiple locations in Google Maps
- From: "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:42:09 +0100
Some detective work there but I'm glad it worked in the end. <g>
bones
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Subject: [jhb] Re: OT: Plot multiple locations in Google Maps
Bones
I finally got this to produce the sort of display that SWMBO was looking
for. UK postcodes on their own don't work - as you thought, only the
first four characters are picked up. Worse than that, because the
mapping tool only reads the first four characters a lot of the data
which were LE16 and LE17 postcodes were resolved as only one pin on the
map. So then I tried street addresses plus town/village name without
postcodes - but this produced pins in Australia, N America, S Africa
where towns/villages of the same name took priority (?? related to
population??). Next I tried adding "England" as another field but this
still produced the same - pins in Australia, etc. So I removed
"England" and added the postcodes back in - but this still gave the same
result!! Finally, when I added *both* "England" *and* UK postcode to
the street address plus town/village I got what I was looking for.
Thanks for turning this web site up.
Mike L
On 22/04/2010 07:59, Mike Lucas wrote:
> Looks interesting, although the screenshot is based on US zip codes.
> Will have a look at it later to see if it works with our UK ones.
>
> Mike L
>
> On 22/04/2010 00:55, Fossil wrote:
>
>>
>> However, in my search I found this site - http://www.batchgeo.com/ -
>> which
>> seems to provide just what you want.
>>
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