Create a Google My Map

Create a Google My Map

1. Make sure that you are signed into the Google account that you are going to use for the Lumberton Tree record keeping

2. Go to the Google My Maps webpage using the account for Lumberton.

3. At the top left, click on CREATE A NEW MAP

4. In the title area where it says "untitled map" type in Lumberton Trees, or something similar. While doing this you will also see a Description field. You can add relevant information here, for example the date when this map was created or who is doing it. Click Save. (This could also be done later.)

5. In the box titled "Untitled layer," click on Import.

6. A popup box labeled "Choose a file to import will appear. The first choice is Upload. Click on this if your Lumberton Trees spreadsheet is on your computer. If you have the spreadsheet on your Google Drive (recommended), click on Google Drive and navigate to the folder holding the file then click to open it.

7. Once you have selected the spreadsheet a pop up box will appear, Choose columns to position your placemarks. If you have labeled the colums with location data Latitude and Longitude, they will be checked. If so click on Continue. If your columns are not labeled Latitude and Longitude, then click on the correct columns so My Map will know which to use.

8. Next you will see a pop up box that says Choose a column to title your markers. This could be whatever you want, but the Tree Number is unique to each tree, so that is useful to identify it, but you could also use Common Name.

9. In the map description box, click on Base map at the bottom of the box. The Satellite view is the most useful one for our purposes, so click on that.

10. You can now zoom in on the map to verify individual trees.

11. For more detailed information about creating a Google My Map, check out this page.