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1897 vs. 2021

October 8, 2021 by Lloyd 2 Comments

Filed Under: Nerd, Prototype Tagged With: Lincoln, map, old

How to make a Google map of graduation parties

May 1, 2014 by Lloyd 10 Comments

Teachers get invited to a fair number of graduation parties, and for years I’ve told myself that graduation “season” would be easier if I had a map of where the parties were. Last year I got organized and made a map. It was surprisingly easy. This should work with any sort of address data, so if you’re making maps for graduations or garage sales this should still work.

Step one: Trick Seniors into Getting you Graduation Information

The trick here is to make it easy for them to do so.  I created a Google form to capture the data, but you could use any survey type site. We get the seniors to setup a Facebook Group each year, so I recruited a senior, convinced him that having a map of graduation parties would be a good idea (the seniors can use it too). He posted the form to the Facebook group and harassed seniors until we had all of the information.

google form

Step two: Fix the data

Part of fixing the data will be standardizing all of the information that the seniors submitted so that everything is consistent (dates, times…). The rest is simply arranging the data in the correct order for the mapping service and sorting it by date and time.  This is the order that I found makes a nice map. The order of the first 4 is mandated by the mapping software.

Address City State Zipcode Name Date Time Venue Notes

Step three: Paste your spreadsheet data into BatchGeo

BatchGeo is free as long as you have reasonably small sets of data. If you have hundreds of graduation parties you can still use it, but you’ll have to pay for the maps.

batchgeo

  1. Copy your spreadsheet data including header.
  2. Paste it into the “spreadsheet box” on the batchgeo site (if you then click outside the box it will format it nicely).
  3. Click on “Validate and Set Options”.
  4. Set your region and group by date.
  5. Click on “Advanced Option”
  6. You probably don’t have to change anything here. Just look at the options and make any changes that you think would look nice. If you notice that anything looks odd, you can always start over at step 1.
  7. Click on “Make Map”.
  8. After you admire your map, click on “Save and Continue”.
  9. Enter a title, description and your email address (so you can update it if needed). You probably want an unlisted map so that only people to whom you give the URL will be able to see it. Click on “Save Map” and you’ll be sent an email with the links.

map

The image above links to the actual map, but batchgeo only keeps your map until people stop visiting it. After that, they will send you an email and you can visit it if you want to keep it.

Notice that you can filter by day and that the markers are labeled in alphabetical order by when the party gets started (assuming you sorted your data by date and time before you pasted it in).

Step four: Share your map

Just one note about sharing your map: if you make changes later, batchgeo generates a new URL for the edited version of your map. So if you make a change, make sure you send out the new URL to teachers and seniors. For that same reason, you probably don’t want to use URL shortening services like bit.ly that do not allow you to update the URL after the shortened link is created. Oh, it might also be polite to tell both the seniors and the teachers that just because you’re providing a map to the parties doesn’t imply that everyone is automatically invited to every party.

Filed Under: Lloyd, Nerd, School Tagged With: map

Zombie Threat Level Map

April 11, 2010 by Lloyd 9 Comments

There are several good sources for general zombie preparedness information. But they all seem to report on the likelihood of a universal of zombie outbreak. If you’re trying to guarantee the survival of yourself and your family, or planning a vacation, you’ll want to know what the zombie threat level is on a state by state basis.

Yesterday we had the data in a handy table. Nice, but who wants to take that kind of time? Today we have the same information culled from state by state news reports, blog posts and tweets. Click on a state for more specific data.

Opps, couldn’t find the map. You may need to upgrade your Flash Player

Technical Details: a python script grabs the state by state data from google and twitter then saves an xml file that the flash map (from the lovely people at amMap) displays.

You might also be interested in these fine people:

  • The Undead Report especially their map.
  • Zombies Defined especially their tip of the week
  • The Zombie Research Society especially their Keller Zombie Survival Scale
  • ZombieDefense.org
  • Zombies Are Coming
  • Zombie Reporting Center

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: add, map, zombies

If You’re Happy and You Know It…

June 20, 2009 by Lloyd 19 Comments

Happy Father’s Day, Dad and Dad!

National Geographic suggested that this map shows that Hawaii is the happiest state, but I think it clearly shows that Nebraska is, if not the happiest, at least the least sad.

Texas seems confused

I attribute this mostly to the fact that we have more of a representational democracy than the rest of you guys (except for Maine).

Filed Under: Found, Lloyd Tagged With: map, nebraska

Speaking of Dora

February 27, 2008 by Lloyd 19 Comments

Thanks to the mommies and sundry preschool personnel, I am given to understand that Dora’s schtick is using a map with the assistance of her damn dirty ape. Maps have been on my mind lately, too.

Your ideas intrigue me. I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Published… Again….

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: car, map

Where are you from?

August 18, 2007 by Lloyd 4 Comments

hmmm, can't seem to find Seward.

So this guy setup a webpage where you say what region, state, city (and so forth) of the country you most identify with and he turned that data into maps. I like maps of all sorts anyway, so I thought this was interesting. In addition to maps of regions, he also does maps of MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL and NCAA teams.

Filed Under: Found, Lloyd Tagged With: map

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