Sunday, August 8, 2010

Geocoding addresses

Here is how to quickly assign geographic coordinates to street addresses using the online program called, batchgeo

First, prepare a set of  street addresses in a tab delimited format.  Here's an example I typed into a spreadsheet:

Name Address City Province
Cafe 175 West Ave Kitchener  Ontario
WLU  75 University Ave. W   Waterloo  Ontario
Kitchener  200 King St. W.  Kitchener  Ontario





Second, cut and past this table into batchbgeo









Third, follow the remaining steps laid out by the batchgeo software to set the options and geocode the table.  The map can be displayed online and/or saved as a kml file.  The kml file can then be loaded into Google Earth or imported into Google Maps, as shown by the map below.