Geocode function

 

The Excel Geocode function returns geographic information, given the name of a place.

Usage:

=geocode(request, location)

Where:

request is the information desired (“latitude”, “longitude”, “postcode”, … complete list)

location is an address, a city, a country or the name of a point of interest

Examples:

Excel Formula Result Remarks
=Geocode(“status”,”High Street, London”) 5 matches Which one? Newham, Croydon, Barnet, Waltham Forest or Stratford?
=Geocode(“latitude”,”High Street, London”) Blank because there are 5 (ambiguous) answers
=Geocode(“status”,”14, Camden High Street UK”) OK 0
=Geocode(“latitude”,”14, Camden High Street UK”) 51.5346889 Numbers, not text
=Geocode(“longitude”,”14, Camden High Street UK”) -0.1386746 0
=Geocode(“formatted_address”,”14, Camden High Street UK”) 14 Camden High St, Camden Town, Greater London NW1 2, UK 0
=Geocode(“types”,”métro Trocadéro paris”) subway_station establishment transit_station ‘types’ describes what the place is. It is not always present
=Geocode(“postal_code”,”Kinkakuji”) 603-8361 Golden Temple, Kyoto, Japan (you knew that, of course)
=Geocode(“country political”,”Mweka”) Democratic Republic of the Congo but I bet you didn’t know that!
0 0 0
=Geocode(“fields”) 32 There are (currently) 32 fields available
=Geocode(“field”,1) status The first field is ‘status’
=Geocode(“field”,2) coordinates The second field is ‘coordinates’
=Geocode(“field”,3) latitude etc.

Notes:

  1. If there are any errors, only the ‘status’ field is populated, all the others return blank (first example above)
  2. It is therefore very important to always display the status field, otherwise you will not see why a field is blank
 Posted by on 2011/03/30 at 11:58

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