GeoMapApp© Help
Import Data Tables
Use this option to Import Data Tables from your own computer or from a file on the internet. You may import data from the clipboard (copy/paste), from an ASCII (plain text) or Excel spreadsheet file (.xls) , or from an Excel spreadsheet or text file at another URL (at another website). You may now display up to 10000 datapoints in the Main Map Window (03/08).
To view a movie tutorial, click importing data tables (Flash is required).
To begin, select File to pop up the option menu, select the type file you wish to import, then Data Format Requirements. A browser window opens (it may be minimized). After reading the requirements, choose the applicable option in the same pulldown menu.
If you choose:
Import from Clipboard (paste)
Import from tab-delimited ASCII (text) file
Import from comma-delimited ASCII (text) file
Import from Excel-formatted (.xls) file
An information window appears.You may paste data directly into this window. 
To import from a file, the Open window appears, allowing you to browse the files of that type on your local computer. Select your datafile from the list and click Open.
Your data table appears in the Imported Data Tables window; click Ok.
The Config dialog box opens. It shows your dataset's filename and the column headings automatically chosen for latitude and longitude. By clicking on the Column buttons, you can change the selections to other headings in your table.
Choose Data type: Station (point locations) or Track (lines); adjust the Symbol Size by moving the slider bar .
Click Color, the color chooser appears. First move the middle bar 'modify saturation' upward until a rainbow of colors appears in the adjacent panel.
Then select a color (left bar), modifying it by adjusting the sliders for saturation (middle) and brightness (right).
Press OK and the data locations will plot as colored symbols. The buttons in the right panel offer several additional options.
Checking and unchecking the Plot check box will bring a dataset to the front of any loaded grids.
The Data Table Config button brings up the Configure Table window which controls the view of the Data Table in the lower panel. It allows you to display or hide columns of your choice by highlighting and
using the > and < buttons to move between Hidden and Visible.
Once the data is plotted, you can continue to make refinements to the way it is displayed by using the buttons on the right side of the Main Map Window. Graph, for example, will plot any of your data table columns versus any other. Choose between a Line Plot and a Scatter Plot. There is a movie tutorial (requires Flash) available demonstrating graphing data, scaling and coloring symbols.
Pressing Save or right-clicking within the graph window brings up a menu with several choices: Save Graph Data to clipboard, text (ascii) or Excel spreadsheet;Save Graph Image in JPG or PNG format; or Print.
Other options available within the Graph Tool include an automatic resizing and scaling button (Auto Resize), a lasso tool that
allows the user to select groups of data points which are then highlighted in the Main Map Window, and inner blue boundary lines which can be dragged to adjust the range of the graph.
When finished, close the graph and press the Close button to the right of the Main Map Window to clear memory.