Comments on: Where to find the data to make your own foursquare infographic http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/ An unofficial blog covering Foursquare badges, news and apps Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ack154 http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-26247 ack154 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:46:25 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-26247 Just a note about the map and the data points matching… the GPS visualizer site uses a “flat” map – where the upper US border is level, instead of curving. So when you paste those points onto a “curved” map, they don’t quite fit right. I fought with this for a while on mine until I realized what it was.

]]> By: Chris Thompson http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-26159 Chris Thompson Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:34:42 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-26159 Museo Sans

]]> By: Ziggy http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-26142 Ziggy Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:42:59 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-26142 Beautiful work on the infographic! Question though: what font are you using?

]]> By: Aaron http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25745 Aaron Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:23:37 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25745 I think we would all appreciate a video tutorial of how these things are made. People would be very grateful for it

]]> By: Josh http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25728 Josh Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:35:59 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25728 Dude that is awesome! Thanks!

]]> By: Chris Thompson http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25708 Chris Thompson Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:49:15 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25708 I used Smultron on the Mac. Any text editor that supports regular expressions should work.

]]> By: Josh http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25705 Josh Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:43:05 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25705 Thanks for sharing. One question, what program did you use to whittle down the ICS file to just lat and longs?

Thanks

]]> By: Chris Thompson http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25700 Chris Thompson Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:56:54 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25700 OK, I apparently made this much more difficult than it needed to be. You can actually use the KML file directly in the map generator. Add “?count=1500″ (or whatever number you need) to the end of the KML link and paste it in the “provide the URL” field. You can set all sorts of options for automatically calculating the size of the dots based on frequency (for mine, the Dunkin Donuts one was so large that it made the others tiny by comparison) and displaying the names of venues.

]]> By: Chris Thompson http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25699 Chris Thompson Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:50:32 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25699 Once I got it down to just the comma separated lat/long pairs (one pair per line), I just pasted it into the box.

]]> By: Aaron http://aboutfoursquare.com/where-to-find-the-data-to-make-your-own-foursquare-infographic/#comment-25697 Aaron Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:29:04 +0000 http://aboutfoursquare.com/?post_type=broll&p=1721#comment-25697 How do you get the ICS file data in to the map generator?

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