{"id":82,"date":"2010-07-08T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/spreadsheet-creativity-a-town-map\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:28:35","slug":"spreadsheet-creativity-a-town-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/spreadsheet-creativity-a-town-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Creativity: A Town Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, spreadsheets were designed so you could do what-if analysis on your numbers. But who hasn&#8217;t used a spreadsheet for non-numeric things?<\/p>\n<p>We use spreadsheets for everything from grocery lists, to knitting pattern design to AC\/DC videos.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a tweet, I found a town map that was created in Excel, as described on the <a title=\"Cartastrophe blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cartastrophe.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/03\/the-town-spreadsheet\/\">Cartastrophe blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"exceltownmap01\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/exceltownmap01.png\" alt=\"exceltownmap01\" width=\"364\" height=\"205\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The town is <a title=\"Blooming Grove, Wisconsin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blmgrove.com\/index.html\">Blooming Grove, Wisconsin<\/a>, and you can download a copy of the <a title=\"Town Map Excel file\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blmgrove.com\/images\/TownMap.xls\">Town Map Excel file<\/a> from the town&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this April Hills sign:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"exceltownmap02\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/exceltownmap02.png\" alt=\"exceltownmap02\" width=\"252\" height=\"190\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>is in the April Hill park shown on the map.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"exceltownmap03\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/exceltownmap03.png\" alt=\"exceltownmap03\" width=\"388\" height=\"246\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, spreadsheets were designed so you could do what-if analysis on your numbers. But who hasn&#8217;t used a spreadsheet for non-numeric things? We use spreadsheets for everything from grocery lists, to knitting pattern design&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day","category-spreadsheets","tag-map","tag-microsoft-excel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}