"How to…" guide and tips for aus-emaps.com - online maps of Australia

This series of posts outlines core functionality of aus-emaps.com and provides tips on how to make the most of it, for your business or pleasure. This page will be updated regularly as new information is published so, you only need to bookmark it once!

How to:

1. Add aus-emaps.com free widgets to your website
2. Link to aus-emaps.com map pages from websites, emails, other electronic documents
3. Print aus-emaps.com maps
4. Search for post codes and access post code demographic statistics
5. Manually geocode addresses and points of interest/ lines
6. Efficiently geocode and verify location information with free Address Validation Tool
7. Select the right colours for thematic maps
8. Convert CSV points into GIS shp file format
9. Convert shapefile to KML
10. Generalise geographic data
    

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