How to geolocalize “on the fly” multiple text addresses

If you have a list of addresses and you need to geolocalize them you can use this service:

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

Simply copy in the first text input your list, one address per line, and then click on geocoding:

Every address will be associated to his latitude and longidute using yahoo geo api.

Hope it helps!

Nations of the world in javascript array

If you need a list on continents and nations in javascript format here is the code:

var continents =
[
["Africa","Algeria,Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina,Burundi,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,Comoros,Congo,Congo, Democratic Republic of,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mauritius,Morocco,Mozambique,Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe,Senegal,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Tunisia,Uganda,Zambia,Zimbabwe"],
["Asia","Bangladesh,Bhutan,Brunei,Burma (Myanmar),Cambodia,China,East Timor,India,Indonesia,Japan,Kazakstan,Korea,North,Korea, South,Laos,Malaysia,Maldives,Mongolia,Nepal,Philippines,Russian Federation,Singapore,Sri Lanka,Thailand,Vietnam"],
["Europe","Albania,Andorra,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus,Belgium,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,France,Georgia,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Iceland,Ireland,Italy,Latvia,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malta,Moldova,Monaco,Montenegro,Netherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,San Marino,Serbia,Slovakia,Slovenia,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Ukraine,United Kingdom,Vatican City"],
["North America","Antigua and Barbuda,Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Canada,Costa Rica,Cuba,Dominica,Dominican Republic,El Salvador,Grenada,Guatemala,Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica,Mexico,Nicaragua,Panama,Saint Kitts and Nevis,Saint Lucia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Trinidad and Tobago,United States"],
["Oceania","Australia,Fiji,Kiribati,Marshall Islands,Micronesia,Nauru,New Zealand,Palau,Papua New Guinea,Samoa,Solomon Islands,Tonga,Tuvalu,Vanuatu"],
["South America","Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Ecuador,Guyana,Paraguay,Peru,Suriname,Uruguay,Venezuela"],
["Middle East","Afghanistan,Bahrain,Iran,Iraq,Israel,Jordan,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Lebanon,Oman,Pakistan,Qatar,Saudi Arabia,Syria,Tajikistan,Turkey,Turkmenistan,United Arab Emirates,Uzbekistan,Yemen"]
]; 

 

This is useful if you need to find using google geolocation the continent of a nation.

Here is the firebug console:

hope it helps!

How to generate KML file from excel data (or csv!)

The marketing department gives you an excel file and says : “it would be nice to have this data available on gGogle Earth (and also on Google Maps! ”…. can you do this today?

Instead of running out of the room with your hands in your hair simply download the excel file located at http://processtrends.com/Files/MapExcelData.zip 

Follow the instructions and in 10 minutes you will have the data geolocated and a beautiful kml file.

This is the excel file:

The generated KML file:

And the kml file in viewed in Google Earth:

Many thanks to http://processtrends.com and to simon_a !