gs2geojson

Make geoJSON

More specifically, make geoJSON from a Google spreadsheet because you can view that in a beautiful Mapbox map on GitHub. YEAH!

This is a super simple node.js command line tool (NPM) that fetches your data from Google Spreadsheets and transforms it to geoJSON with the option to write it to a file. When you push the file to GitHub after running the script, you can view it in your repo as a lovely map!

Quick How

• npm install -g gs2geojson
• Have a Google Spreadsheet with lat, long columns and if you want, a hexcolor column. Publish spreadsheet, copy key.
• gogogeo YOURSPREADSHEETKEY
• Use gogogeo YOURSPREADSHEETKEY --save to write it to a file to push to GitHub

See directly below if you want to know more about getting lat and long

Long How

Make a Spreadsheet

• Your spreadsheet should have a lat column and long column. You can do it manually or use this Mapbox Plugin or use a Geocoder.
• If you want to pick your own markers colors, and a column titled hexcolor with the hexcolor values you want. The default is blue.
• Click File > Publish to the Web > Start Publishing. Copy the key generated between the = and &:

Node and NPM

• You'll need to have Node.js installed on your computer.
• In your computer's Terminal, type npm install -g gs2geojson to install it as a global module.
• To do a test, you can type npm test and it will run with a sample spreadsheet.

Add Your Key and Run

• In your Terminal type gogogeo YOURSPREADSHEETKEY

• If you want to save the spreadsheet as a geojson file in the directory you're in type gogogeo YOURSPREADSHEETKEY --save
• To pipe the data to you clipboard to paste somewhere else type gogogeo YOURSPREADSHEETKEY | pbcopy

Push to GitHub and View

• Include it in a repo and push it to GitHub!
• Go look at it on the internet!