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QGIS Blueprints

You're reading from   QGIS Blueprints Develop analytical location-based web applications with QGIS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289071
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Google Sheets for data management


Google Sheets provides us with virtually everything we need in a basic data management platform—it is web-based, easily editable through a spreadsheet interface, has fine-grained editing controls and API options, and is consumable through a simple JSON web service—at no cost, in most cases.

Creating a new Google document

To create a new Google document, you'll need to sign up for a Google account at https://accounts.google.com. Perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new Google Sheets document at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets.

  2. Import data from an Excel file.

    1. Navigate to File | Import.

    2. Then, navigate to Upload | c7/data/original/building_export.xlsx.

Publishing Google Sheets on the Web

By default, Google Sheets will not be publicly viewable. In addition, no web service feed is exposed. To enable access to our data hosted by Google Sheets from our web application, we must publish the sheet. Perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to File | Publish to the web.

  2. Copy...

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