a google map from vbase data

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Getting Vbase data into a Google KML file

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Page 1: A Google Map from VBase data

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Mike VeitchIT Project for West London

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How it was done

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

From V-Base

Create secondary database

Select tables

Write a query

Export data to CSV/Excel

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

Data now in Excel

No data editing

Change some variables

Change filenames

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

From Excel

VBA in a macro

Running the macro

Writes out the KML file

KML saved to local drive

Keyhole Markup Language

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

Why Google Earth

V-base contains postcodes

Google Maps requires coordinates

Google earth supports UK postcodes

Gives visual check on data

Test click through

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

Why Google Earth

Can write out KML/KMZ files

These files now contain UK postcode

And coordinate data

Can be read by Google Maps

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

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Edit your data

Create KML file

Extract the data

Export from Google Earth

Import to Google Earth

FTP to website

What do we FTP?

Our overlay file (KML)

Any graphics referenced in the KML file

- Map Pins

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Publish URL

Monitor Traffic

Evaluate

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You have seen a working prototype

There are unresolved problems

Questions