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Geocoding for Dummies – Map your spreadsheets…

Got a giant list of GPS coordinates, want to see them on a map? How about retrieving address data for your coordinates? Below you can quickly take a list of latitude and longitude coordinates and quickly map them as well as retrieve address data. After your done you can save the map to its own web page for future use, or dump the results out to Google Earth. The process is called Reverse Geocoding and it uses the Google Maps engine to retrieve the data and display the map using the best data available. This tool is free for you to use!

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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