I work with a private preschool – 12th-grade school. The school has several campuses. And each campus has several hundred families. We have two separate spreadsheets. One spreadsheet has all of the parents’ home addresses and the other spreadsheet has all of the parents’ work addresses. We’re using a mapping software called eSpatial (but it’s limited). We can upload the spreadsheets (datasets) and map both batches of addresses.
The problem is that this doesn’t really tell us very much. Ultimately, we need a way to link home and work addresses together, visually, as being the same person.
For example, let’s say one point on a map is a parent’s home address at 123 Main St. and another point on the map is the same parent’s work address at 321 Sycamore Rd. We need a way to visually know that the two points below to the same person so we can see who, and how far, each parent travels to work. Ideally, if there was a line that connected the two points that would be great. That would make it easy to see how far away the parent works. Or it would also work to hover over one point and the corresponding home or work point would highlight.
Currently, the two spreadsheets do not have a common column that links the two together (I guess a “key”). Although I can create a spreadsheet that has a student ID column which would be the key between the two.
Any thoughts on how to put something like this together? Hopefully, this makes sense.
