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CocoaTech's Path Finder - Versatile Encoding Helper
Wed, Dec 16 2009 17:59
| CocoaTech, Encoding, import, Path Finder, Shift JIS, textmate, UTF-8
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CocoaTech's Path Finder tool is a versatile Finder replacement. One problem that you might have if you do any work with data, is importing CSV files that are in the UTF-8 format, and which contain multi-byte characters such as Japanese, into Excel.
To import a UTF-8 CSV into Excel, you need to re-save into a format that Excel will accept, because it ironically does not accept the quite-universal UTF-8.
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Exporting Google's "My Maps" as KML
Tue, Aug 26 2008 13:47
| cycling, export, google, import, kml, leisure, my maps, productivity
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I have been spending some time making Google Maps in "My Maps", such as this bike route down the Sakai river, then along the Shonan coast, and back home.
Some applications, like Google Earth, use KML data to represent map routes. There is an easy link now, in My Maps, to click and open the map directly in Google Earth. But if you need the KML data for importing elsewhere, you can save it this way:
First,
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