An Leabharlann UCD

UCD James Joyce Library

Research Services Unit

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Making a Map with Google Mapping Products

Jane Nolan

Maps & GIS Librarian

February 2014

DATA + GOOGLE MAPS ENGINE LITE to make a map

Google Maps Engine Lite is free to use and lets you make custom maps to visualise information – you can:

• Import data from a spreadsheet with up to 100 rows and 15 columns of

information • Import a maximum of three spreadsheets or layers of data • Add points of interest, lines and shapes and style these as you wish • You can choose from nine base map styles • Share your map with colleagues and embed it on your website

For this exercise use the Chrome browser and your UCD Google account

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Information in the spreadsheet

Information must include location details, so that your data will be correctly placed on a map. In this example we have street addresses – you will need to add the city name so that it doesn’t find the same address in the USA or elsewhere. You can also use latitude and longitude co-ordinates (useful if you have rural locations) You can find latitude and longitude co-ordinates using www.google.com/maps

Event Address Time of day Episode

No. 7, Eccles Street 7 Eccles Street, Dublin 8am Calypso

Sweny’s shop Lincoln Place, Dublin 9.45am Louseaters

Freeman’s Journal/ Evening Telegraph office Prince's Street, Dublin 12.15pm Aeolus

Graham Lemon’s sweetshop 49 Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin 1.10pm Laestrygonians

FIRST, navigate to the Excel spreadsheet named Where Joyce Lived in Dublin and Locations in Ulysses – these are on the desktop in a folder called Safe. This is your data. Open Where Joyce Lived in Dublin.

Latitude and Longitude

Type this address into the search box : 34 Fitzgibbon

Street

A marker will appear on the map to show the address

At the top of the screen in the address toolbar you will see the address with the co-ordinates: latitude followed by longitude

https://www.google.com/maps/place/23+Carysfort+Ave/@53.2857409,-6.1810448

Latitude is: 53.2857409 and Longitude is: -6.1810448

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Add this data to your spreadsheet

Street Address Name of person who lived

here

Dates lived at this

address

Intact or

Demolished

Latitude Longitude

41 Brighton Square, Dublin James Joyce 1882-1884 Intact 53.315253 -6.280463

23 Castlewood Avenue, Dublin James Joyce 1884-1887 Intact 53.322731 -6.2623616

23 Carysfort Avenue, Dublin James Joyce 1892-1893 Intact 53.285741 -6.1810448

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Go to Google Maps Engine Lite at:

From this screen click on Create a new map

mapsengine.google.com/map

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Sign into your Google account

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Best if you can use your UCD Google account. From this page you will be directed to your UCD sign-on page

Login to your Google account

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Add your map title and description

Left Click on the text Untitled map and a new box will pop up Type your map title and a description into the box as shown below, then click Save.

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Import your data

Click on Import. You can import data from a CSV file or a spreadsheet to create a layer. A layer usually combines both location and theme information, e.g. coal mines, battle sites, butterfly sightings.

Next choose Select a file from your computer.

Find the Excel spreadsheet Locations in Ulysses and it will upload

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Select the location information

After uploading your data

you will be asked to

choose the column(s) from

your spreadsheet with

location information, so

that your markers will

appear in the correct

places on the map.

When you have selected

Address click on Continue.

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Choose the column for the marker names

The next box asks you

to “Choose a column to

title your markers”. The

title of each marker is

taken from the column

you select.

If you aren’t sure which to choose, click on the question mark next to the field title. This will show you names from that column.

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Select Event and Finish

Click on Event to choose it

Click Finish

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Your markers now shown on the map

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Data is shown as layer in the menu

You can change the name of your layer by clicking on the text of the layer title.

Rename your layer and then click Save.

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ADD NEW LAYER

Upload a second set of data by clicking on Add Layer You will now see Untitled Layer Click on Import Add the Where Joyce Lived in Dublin spreadsheet

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Choose your placemarks and markers

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Now two layers of data

You now have two data layers – Bloomsday and Where Joyce Lived in Dublin In Google Maps Engine Lite the max number of layers you can have is three The blue line at the left edge indicates which is the active spreadsheet

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STYLE YOUR MAP

To change the default red pin do the following: Hover over All items (17). A paint can icon will appear. Left Click on this. Left Click on yellow and diamond just to change the pin colour and shape.

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Map with the icons displayed

For a different icon select More icons. Choose the blue walking man

Zoom in using the + symbol in

the bottom right hand corner of the map to see your icons / markers clearly

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Left Click on your marker to see the data

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Display Intact and Demolished Houses in different ways

Click on layer Where Joyce Lived in Dublin and then click on Style

Individuals styles box will pop up – click on the arrows at side of the box

From the list of options choose Intact or Demolished Then choose Categories Hover your cursor over text Intact then select the paint can icon – choose a colour and shape. Click X on the box for change to take effect Do the same for text Demolished

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Display Intact and Demolished Houses

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Fix or Edit Your Data

Left Click on your marker on the map, then click on the pencil icon.

The Editing box will appear. Change the details in the relevant fields and click Save

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You can also make changes to your data from within the data table view.

From the Where Joyce lived in Dublin layer, click on data and the data table view will appear.

You can make changes by clicking on any field in the table view. You can also add new rows or delete rows.

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Fix or Edit Your Data

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Label your data

To make labels appear beside the features on your map, click on Labels in the Bloomsday layer

The label details are taken from one of the columns in the Bloomsday spreadsheet

From the drop-down menu which appears choose Event

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Your markers will appear with labels

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Add lines or shapes to your map

Make sure the map you want to draw a line or shape on is selected – this is indicated by the blue line on the left side (see slide 19)

Click on the line / shape icon

Your cursor will change to a +

Move this to where you want your line or shape to begin and click once.

Point and click to create your line or shape

A white/grey border will appear around your selected area when you have finished

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Add lines or shapes to your map

To complete a shape click on the starting point again

To complete a line double click on the last point

When a shape or line has been completed a box will appear and you can give it a name and then Save it

This icon will appear in your map’s left hand panel

To delete a point, left click on it, then click the bin icon. Information in the data table will also be removed. To restore the icon and data click

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Add a photo to your map

Find your image first

Go to UCD Digital Library at http://digital.ucd.ie/

In the search box type “dublin castle” and click Go

To choose a record click on it

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Right click on the thumbnail image Then click on Copy image URL

Add a photo to your map

Go to your map and left click on your marker (blue walking person)

From the box which appears click on the pencil icon

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Add a photo to your map

Paste the URL from the Digital Library image into the http:// box, click the Add button and then Save

Add a photo from Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Choose a photo with relevant licence for your purpose. For this exercise select

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Click on (See more) and then type eccles street into the search box

Add a photo from Flickr

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Left click on your image of choice When the image opens look on the right hand side of the screen and click on the Download / All sizes icon Then click on Download / All sizes text

Add a photo from Flickr

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When the options appear left click on the size you want – the image will change to reflect what you have chosen Right click on this image and click Copy image URL to paste into your map.

To add this photo to the marker which already has a photo in it, click on the pencil icon again, click on the small + sign and a new box will pop up paste in the URL and click Add

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Add a photo to your map

Change the style of your base map

Choose Base map from the menu

Click on the to open map styles

Hover over one of the nine images to see what map type it is

Click on any of these images to choose a new base

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Map with terrain base map

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To Open, Create or Delete a Map

From inside Google Maps Engine Lite Click on the folder icon Select New Map to create a blank new map or Open a map to open an existing map or Delete this map

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To delete a layer from your map menu – Left Click down arrow and Delete this Layer option will pop up

To simply add a marker

In the Menu on the Left side of the screen left Click Add New Layer. Click on Untitled Map and name it Banks.

Type your address in the search box, e.g. bank of ireland

Click on it to select it from the list which appears

A green pin icon will appear in the menu and a green pin will appear on the map

To simply add a marker

Left click on the green marker on the map and a box will open with details of the address

Click on the text Add to map

and the marker will change to red

The address will become a layer in the menu which you can style, label and add data to as you wish

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Share your map

All maps private by default

To share a link to the map:

Click on the green share button in the upper right hand corner of the map

Under Who has access, select Change and you’ll see these options

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Share your map

If you choose Public on the Web you will get the option to make your map available to view or to edit

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Share your map by invitation

Click on the green share button in the upper right hand corner of the map On this page called Sharing Settings scroll down to bottom part of page and click in the box Invite people Type in the e-mail addresses and choose whether they can edit or view the map.

N.B. This only works if the other people have a Google account. So if you copy the URL and change the word ‘edit’ to ‘view’, you can send it by e-mail to people with no Google account

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zT_VYO2Joopg.kJLTZnWjGBV4

If you wish you can include a message with your map

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Make sure your map is Public on the Web

Share button > Who has access > Change > Public on the Web > Save

Select the folder icon under the map’s description and from the drop-down menu choose Embed on my site

This will then show you the html code to copy and paste into your website:

Embed your map on the web

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See this map on:

libguides.ucd.ie/findingmaps

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Embed your map on the web

Google Maps Help

https://support.google.com/mapsenginelite/#topic=3188329

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http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/all.html

Lots of other Google mapping options – see tutorials here:

jane.nolan@ucd.ie

Contact me by e-mail

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