{"id":2268,"date":"2016-02-24T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:22:28","slug":"various-mapping-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/2016\/02\/24\/various-mapping-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Various Mapping Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MapMe<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/mapme.com\/restaurants-around-trinity\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>BatchGeo<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/batchgeo.com\/map\/584d4ae4bc269253359da59411d3ddfd\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Google Fusion Tables<br \/>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/DataSource?docid=1u4q0pySuQZlJsnVLL19YIPBY9w7DREKxdMS1YMCV\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Of the three mapping programs, BatchGeo was my favorite. In addition to being the most aesthetically pleasing, it was by far the easiest to use. I was easily able to import my data and I did not have to reformat my Excel document in any way. However, the free version does not support more than 250 entires, so I was not able to geocode all food establishments in Hartford. Thus, I chose to just map restaurants around Trinity. I also appreciate that BatchGeo uses Google Maps as its source.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, MapMe was the most difficult. In order to import data, I had to download their Excel template, and then I had to transfer all of my data into the template for it to be imported. This took a considerable amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>In regards to Google Fusion Tables, I\u2019m not exactly sure how I feel yet. I think that it is the most difficult to learn, but will eventually yield the best results once learned. I have just learned how to set a column to \u201clocation\u201d and I am still struggling to embed this map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapMe BatchGeo Google Fusion Tables Of the three mapping programs, BatchGeo was my favorite. In addition to being the most aesthetically pleasing, it was by far the easiest to use. I was easily able to import my data and I did not have to reformat my Excel document in any way. However, the free version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/2016\/02\/24\/various-mapping-tools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comparing Various Mapping Tools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/dataviz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}