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How To Make a Map From Open Data Using a Spreadsheet

October 6, 2016By GIS ContributorGIS Software

Jonathan Goldman explains in this tutorial how to extract an open data feed from a civic data portal and pull it into Google Sheets, and then map it quickly using Geosheets.

Maps showing Socioeconomic risk, physical risk, and total risk areas for drug abuse. From: Mendoza et. al, 2013).

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Elements of a Map

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