Text post How to add 4sq checkins to Google Maps on your blog

INFO: Sorry, this stopped working due to errors in foursquare’s KML feed (Info). Will update info if a soultion is found.

— Warning: the following requires you to share your private data to the public. It me be illegal in your country and your queen may not be amused. You have been warned.

I added my foursquare checkins to google maps on my blog

Here’s how it works:

  1. you need your foursquare KML feed: http://foursquare.com/feeds/ (RSS Feeds do not provide location data on foursquare)

  2. A Google Maps API key. Grab one here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

  3. A Google spreadsheet with your checkins from [1]. Get a copy of mine: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkJULjdkpbJrdF9GcWhBSjctT0xnRlNFZi15SVgzLWc&hl=en

  4. You need to tweak the spreadsheet to contain your 4sq KML feed adress in cell B2 and H2.

  5. You need to share and publish your spreadsheet. See [6] on how to do that.

  6. The tool “Create a map from a published Google Spreadsheet”: http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/spreadsheetsmapwizard/makecustommap.htm

And you are ready to go. You can even tweak the resulting script code!

Have fun!

Created: Fri 19 Feb

Tags: 4sq foursquare lbs maps geotagging