[Freegis-list] Excel Mapping

[Adrian Custer]

Mr. Alspach,

I know this is a belated reply to this question. I got stuck on the east
coast in early september.

(
For the FreeGIS list folks, the original post is below and at the start
of a two message thread in the archives: 
http://intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2001-August/000570.html
)

I just tried the hornofafrica web site and it has gone. Could you
explain better how mapping works in excel, where to get data, how to
find documentation about it? The Free spreadsheet gnumeric aims to
embrace and extend excel so it will have to take on this capability
eventually. I'd like to understand it so I could explain the GIS side of
things to the gnumeric developers. Thanks for any pointers,

adrian
acuster at nature.berkeley.educational


On Tue, 2001-08-21 at 04:45, Andrew Alspach wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would just like to call your attention to the mapping
> functionality that is built into Microsoft Excel. This does
> not fall within your definitions of "Free Software" but I
> believe it is in the same spirit of your Website. I
> recently discovered that the mapping functions in Excel
> are very useful for Novice users to represent data in a
> spreadsheet spatially. My job is to mainstream GIS and
> for me this means getting people to use spatial data as
> frequently as possible. Excel mapping functions  allow
> dynamic tabular data to be represented in a map. This
> is a feature that is not present in any free GIS software
> that I am aware of (please respond if you know of one)
> but is one of the strongest points of GIS software. The
> drawbacks of Excel mapping are the limited spatial
> layers available to users. (Lots of USA...some UK and
> little of the rest of the world) If your area of interest is
> The Horn of Africa, you are in luck, because the Data
> Exchange Platform for the Horn Of Africa (DEPHA)
> initiative has Excel compatible data on the web for
> downloads at: www.hornofafricadata.org  You will also
> find a How-To manual to help you along. While you are
> there check out the GeoDepot section for per-country
> spatial data layers at various scales. 
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
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