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By: John Krygier

John Krygier — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:40:27 +0000

Try Indiemapper: I believe the free online version allows you to create basic
maps that look pretty good: http://indiemapper.com

Also: ArcGIS Explorer: http://www.arcgis.com/explorer/
ArcGIS Map Viewer: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html

Google “create maps on web” for other options,

hope this helps,

john k.

By: Edwin Hustwit

Edwin Hustwit — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:33:22 +0000

Dear John,

I am currently undertaking my doctoral thesis and need to make maps of geographical regions, e.g. North Wales (UK), for the thesis and also for power-point presentations. I’ve looked on the web for help, but the advice is pretty limited, especially for those of us who are pretty limited in our computer abilities!

Do you have any pointers, please?

Best wishes

Edwin

By: John Krygier

John Krygier — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:16:59 +0000

Both Google Maps and Google Earth need latitude/longitude to plot points. The file format both use is KML (or, if compressed KMZ).

If you have your crime locations plotted out in MapInfo, figure out if you can export to KML or KMZ format. I don’t know MapInfo, but other software packages now provide KML export, or there are free or low cost utilities which generate KML files. You can then open them in Google Earth or Maps.

Another route to getting lat/long is to use street addresses, if that information is included in the police reports. I have my students do this using a web site called BatchGeoCode.

Go to the URL below (a class exercise) and scroll down to the “BatchGeoCode.com” section for step by step instructions.

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_exer/04_222_exer04.html

I hope one of these two options work!

John K.

By: megan ambrosio

megan ambrosio — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:55:22 +0000

I have made beautiful crime maps using MapInfo for years and now I am charmed by showing buildings and cars on streets that Google provides. But I cannot seem to get my dots on the map without putting each one on individually. Can you kindly give me some guidance. I have google earth plus and of course i have google maps. I have no latitude or longitude data. Police Officers do not know what those mean and have no access to that information when they write a report. I think that MapInfo may provide that information but I am not certain. Thank you very much.
ps. once I know how to do something I can be quite creative but without the initial link, the forest is very dark. Megan