Comments on: The Town Spreadsheet http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/ Where Bad Maps Come From Tue, 21 May 2013 01:19:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Spreadsheet Creativity: A Town Map – Spreadsheet Day http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-190 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:43:19 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-190 [...] Thanks to a tweet, I found a town map that was created in Excel, as described on the Cartastrophe blog. [...]

]]> By: Lurker http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-137 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:53:04 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-137 Did you notice the second sheet has the ZONING map on it?

]]> By: Derek http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-107 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:41:51 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-107 All I can say is “wow”. Now that takes a lot of dedication. Have they not heard of Google Maps? But I do like how the spreadsheet (I mean official town map) can be opened by anyone and edited. Ever wish Lake Monona was a bit bigger? Simply expand row 29 and you now have twice as much water to cool off in on those hot summer days. Sweet.

]]> By: Mapgeek http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-44 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:00:42 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-44 I actually find this map intriguing since they used Excel to the best of their ability to produce a passable map. In college I made a 3D map of southwest Michigan counties by filling in spreadsheet cells in the shape of the counties (which were thankfully very square-ish in nature). Each cell repeated the counties’ population value which I then displayed as a 3D chart. My cartography professor was pretty thrilled actually. However, this was 1990 and things have progressed a bit since then! ;-)

Cheers,
-Mapgeek

]]> By: The Town Spreadsheet (Cartastrophe) « Kelso’s Corner http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-37 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:01:17 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-37 [...] Republished from Cartastrophe. Download Excel version of map. [...]

]]> By: e. http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-17 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:11:20 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-17 interestingly enough, this just popped into my rss feed: http://freegeographytools.com/2009/creating-a-thematic-map-using-just-excel

]]> By: ForkBombr » Blog Archive » They Did Their Town Map in Excel http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-3 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:21:51 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-3 [...] Daniel Huffman: I want to point out that this map is actually provided by the town as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. I am not kidding. [...]

]]> By: Steve Smith http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/#comment-2 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:49:45 +0000 http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-2 Powerpoint wouldn’t have surprised me, but Excel is… really something. You have to admire their originality of thought. How many people when asked for a one word response to a prompt of ‘Map’ would come up with ‘Excel’? Would their response to ‘Neuroimaging’ be ‘Corkscrew’?

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