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Creating Maps for small groups

Last post 06-18-2007, 3:28 PM by rguilliams. 4 replies.
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     06-18-2007, 1:02 PM 3848

    Creating Maps for small groups

    At the F1 Conference a few months ago, there was a rumor going around about a church who had setup a system to create maps using FellowshipOne data through a google or mapquest type of output. I'm very interested in finding out how to do this. We are in the process of changing our small groups (home groups) to be neighborhood focused rather than affinity focused and would like to have maps of each of our groups. I'd rather not do this manually, though I have created a few maps through google maps - a very nice feature. But it'd be a lot easier to somehow input data automatically compiled in F1 into one of these maps programs and come up with a map, just like that. Does anyone have any ideas or know which church has already done this that I could get in contact with them? Thanks.

     06-18-2007, 2:15 PM 3854 in reply to 3848

    Re: Creating Maps for small groups

    If it's for small groups of people you could use the mapping program at http://www.batchgeocode.com/. It let's you put in a set of addresses and outputs a map with those addresses marked. You can also save the map as a webpage or as a .kml file for use in Google Earth.
    Rob Guilliams
    Director of Computer Services
    Highview Baptist Church
    Louisville, KY
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     06-18-2007, 3:21 PM 3865 in reply to 3854

    Re: Creating Maps for small groups

    That sounds pretty good. Still inputting a bunch of data, but I'll try it out and see if it's better than google's personal maps. Thank you.

     06-18-2007, 3:24 PM 3866 in reply to 3865

    Re: Creating Maps for small groups

    Definitely better! Thank you. :)

     06-18-2007, 3:28 PM 3867 in reply to 3866

    Re: Creating Maps for small groups

    You're welcome. You should be able to export a small group list from F1 into a spreadsheet and then just copy and paste the data into the batchgeocode engine and validate it. You might have to delete some columns from the spreadsheet, but it's much better than having to enter all of the data by hand.
    Rob Guilliams
    Director of Computer Services
    Highview Baptist Church
    Louisville, KY
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