-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Plotting child care center locations on maps -
User friendly GIS software solution?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:39:47 -0600
From: Chieko Maene <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Similar to GPS Visualizer tool: I like this batchgeocode site, "Locate
multiple addresses - calculate distances - make your own mashup map -
instantly."
http://www.batchgeocode.com/
Chieko
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Chieko Maene
Map Librarian
Government Documents, Maps and Microforms Department
Richard J. Daley Library
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Maps-L wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Plotting child care center locations on maps -
> User friendly GIS software solution?
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:05:40 -0500
> From: Bobb Menk <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
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> If there aren't that many day care centers on the list, there's an
> online tool to convert street addresses for you one at a time at
> http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert?form=address
>
> Isn't this the kind of small project people are using Google Earth to do
> these days?
>
> Bobb Menk
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory Library
>
>
> MAPS-L wrote:
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Plotting child care center locations on
>> maps -
>> User friendly GIS software solution?
>> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:27:04 -0600
>> From: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
>> <[log in to unmask]>
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>>
>> Gregory:
>>
>> It depends on the level of accuracy you need to plot them. The biggest
>> roadblock I would see is conversion of street addresses into geocodes.
>> Those datasets aren't cheap. If she can do it by city or zip, then it's
>> easier.
>>
>> For software,* if* she can get the data to include a lat-long or other
>> non- address locator field, then I'd recommend MaPublisher plugins for
>> Illustrator. It can create point plots, and if you use TIGER or other
>> basic base data.
>>
>> It may actually be more cost-effective (and time effective) to farm this
>> work out to a GIS specialist (especially one with a address-geocoding
>> database at their disposal).
>>
>> Nat Case
>> Hedberg Maps
>>
>>
>> At 9:10 am -0600 12/05/2006, Maps-L wrote:
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Plotting child care center locations on maps - User
>>> friendly
>>> GIS software solution?
>>> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:53:26 -0500
>>> From: March, Gregory H <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a patron that needs help with choosing GIS software for a project
>>> she is involved with. The learning curve for ArcGIS software
>>> applications is big, and I wanted to know if there is an easier solution
>>> to addressing her project needs. I thought this would be the best way
>>> to go about finding answers to this question. The message follows
>>> below:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I need some advice. I work in publications for the College of Social
>>> Work. We have a client for whom we want to publish a report that will
>>> include some sets of maps. We will have a database of information on
>>> child care centers. Those databases will contain addresses for each of
>>> the locations. We would like to sort those databases and according to
>>> certain criteria place markers on maps that show the locations of the
>>> centers. I assume that if I would get the right software, this task
>>> could be fairly simple. But. . . . what is the right software?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please reply off list.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Gregory March
>>> Assistant Professor and Map/GIS Librarian
>>> University of Tennessee
>>> 15A Hoskins Library
>>> Knoxville, TN 37996
>>> (865) 974-3878 voice
>>> (865) 974-3925 fax
>>> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Nat Case
>> Hedberg Maps, Inc
>>
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