Saturday, February 15, 2014

Google Spreadsheet Connected to a Custom Google Map

I hacked together some cool javascript code that takes a world editable Google spreadsheet that contains names and longitudes and latitudes and puts them on a map. It is a really cool and simple way to allow people to add themselves to a map.

Here is the example: http://www.the-iliad.org/map.html

Here is the source: http://pastebin.com/LPVb5NPy

I am sure if you wanted to make it more complicated you could make it so people didn't even need to goto the Google spreadsheet and could just enter the information in a text box on the webpage and click a button. You can put the map in an iframe to do that.

This code probably has other cool applications.