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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.

Map created with data before generalization (left) and after automatic generalization (right).

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