# Is there an internet site that will do this (mapping)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 4, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010 "2007-09-04T16:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/1 "2007-09-04T16:07:40Z")
I’m the president of a club that is assigned boundaries by our national organization. We need to rethink those boundaries, as we have many members who fall outside of them and we have a lot of new construction going on in our area. Is there a (preferably free) website I can go to where I can plug in our existing members’ addresses and have them pinpointed on a map that I can print out? My alternative is to do it by hand, which is fine if I must, but I’d rather not spend a week on something I’m not getting paid to do. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/2 "2007-09-04T16:10:21Z")
Where do you live? Google Maps will pinpoint addresses fairly accurately in many parts of the USA and Europe - not sure about other areas. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/3 "2007-09-04T16:24:07Z")
Is there a function in Google maps where I can plug in a whole bunch of addresses and have it mark them on a printable map? That would be cool. I’m in Raleigh, NC, so I could definitely use Google maps to find each address, I just wanted to avoid doing this all manually (there are a lot of addresses). ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/4 "2007-09-04T16:27:57Z")
Not that I’m aware of: you might try contacting a local college or university’s geography department, and asking if some students might geocode a list of addresses for you. ---
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/5 "2007-09-04T16:43:03Z")
If you go to Google and search on [geocode addresses](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=geocode+addresses), you’ll get quite a few hits, many of which seem to meet your needs…? ETA: [This one](http://www.batchgeocode.com/) claims to do exactly what you asked for, if I’m reading it correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/6 "2007-09-04T18:20:38Z")
[GPS Visualizer's Easy Batch Geocoder: Convert addresses to coordinates](http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/) Will do what you seek. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/7 "2007-09-04T18:22:35Z")
Great…thank you all for those links. I’ll check them out! ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-an-internet-site-that-will-do-this-mapping/418010/8 "2007-09-05T01:50:03Z")
Download google earth and use the little pushpin feature to mark each member’s address. You can then print the maps in Google Earth. You can also save the locations to a KMZ file and import that into google maps, as I’ve done here with a list of football stadiums that my officials’ association works at: [Google Maps](http://maps.google.com/?q=http://myweb.stedwards.edu/mikem/Football.kmz)