Use Excel Template to Plot Points on a Yahoo Map

Hat tip to Lifehacker for the pointer to Jeffrey McManus' tool, Yahoo! MapMaker for Microsoft Excel. It's an Excel template which you can download for free at http://www.well.com/user/jeffreyp/mapmaker/.

The template is supposed to allow you to put information into a spreadsheet format (title, address, city, state, lat/long, etc.) and then click on the Tools -> Display in Yahoo Maps. The points will be automatically plotted onto Yahoo Maps.

Unfortunately it didn't work for me when I tried it with Excel 2000; I got a runtime error. Jeffrey notes on his site "This has been tested on Microsoft Excel 2003 running on Windows XP. It should work on earlier versions (possibly going as far back as Windows 98) as well."

Sigh... between stuff like this and all the cool Excel blogs up there I'm gonna have to upgrade...

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