To overcome the limitation with the <MultiGeometry> element, I am considering splitting my data into several rows as hinted at in the Fusion Table Help and here.
This will yield a large amount of rows and I would like to group them into Folders in Google Earth when viewing the Network Link. Is that possible at all ?
Note: there is a similar question left unanswered on the Fusion Table forum.
At the time of writing, this is not possible.
There is already a related feature request asking for Folder capability (as well as Sub-Folder incidentally). Wait and see, hopefully Google will address this in the near future.
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I have a Google Spreadsheets with data connected to a Data Studio Panel. I'm using the following data flow to get the data:
Google SpreadSheets --> BigQuery External Table --> View To the External Table --> Data Studio (Updated every 10 minutes)
But for some reason that I don't know, sometimes, when executing a select on the BigQuery External Table I get the following error:
Resources exceeded during query execution: Google Sheets service overloaded for spreadsheet id:XXX
The Google SpreadSheet has only 1500x10 Columns, which I think is pretty small. Also, there are about 6 users.
What can cause that error? Any idea about how to solve this?
Thanks
The Google documentation has information about this error:
A BigQuery query can overload Sheets, resulting in an error like Resources exceeded during query execution: Google Sheets service overloaded. Consider simplifying your spreadsheet; for example, by minimizing the use of formulas.
It seems that along with size of the Sheet, the "complexity" also matters. We cannot know how complex is your spreadsheet without seeing it but consider reducing your formula usage. This article also mentions a max result size of 10MB and other pivot table limits. You could also try to divide the data or if the error rate is manageable you could also use some kind of retry strategy to query again until you get the results.
If this is not enough then you may have reached the limits of what you can do with Sheets. Digging deeper I found this Google issue tracker post which has a quote from their engineering team:
The BigQuery Engineering Team has stated that the current suggested approach is to simplify the spreadsheet. Sheets is designed for Web/Mobile use cases and not as a DB backend. Even a couple of thousand rows is large in this context, especially if there are formulas involved.
The post is a feature request to the Google engineering team to allow for more complexity, but these requests can take time and if they don't intend Sheets to be used that way it's also possible that they won't implement it. If you cannot reduce the spreadsheet's complexity enough to stop getting the error you may want to consider querying the data from a different source.
I recently decided to update my spreadsheet of games I need to complete. In order to ensure my data was constantly up to date I made use of the IMPORTXML function but with the amount of urls I have begun to encounter 'loading' issues.
This is the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZdcsIf9Upn_0zqTFyLAm1TMMFu_MpyTEm23EU0nVaTA/edit?usp=sharing
(Columns B,E,G and I are usually hidden)
Column A is the url.
Column B scrapes the image url and column C displays it.
Columns D,E,G and I scrape the data I want and displays it in columns D,F,H and J.
If my aim is to have upwards of 500 urls, is this something that can be only be accomplished with a script?
In this scenario you are encountering the limit of Google services. That quota is reached by aggregating the usage of all documents and projects. Also please be aware that there could be more than one import inside the same document, like one per every cell in your example.
To diminish that usage you could modify old documents so they don't refresh anymore (commenting out the relevant pieces and deactivating triggers). Alternatively you could just delete them. If you plan to run large amounts of imports, you could use Apps Script. Although this option is limited by the same quota discussed above, you could programmatically control when and how much to import in order to optimise your utilisation of Google services.
I am really just looking for the best way to accomplish this. I've seen the code how to do these individually, but is there a away to do it for say, 100 points? Or do i need to set the custom image and custom info for every point I create?
Also, is there a backend, say SQLite, that i could incorporate the help accomplish more efficiently?
The app I'm building could have 1000's of points, and I REALLY wouldn't want to code everyone of those...but i would!
Thanks
Consider using Google Fusion Tables - they support 100,000 points per layer and 5 layers, for 500,000 points altogether. You access them via an SQL-type language that runs on Google's servers - exactly where your data will be when you upload it and that makes them very fast.
The infowindows are programmable too.
You load your CSV into a Fusion Table (like an Excel spreadsheet) in your Google drive and get a key to that table and you then use the key in your Javascript.
I created the following website with Fusion Tables and I don't have a clue about Javascript! See Skyscan website here. I won't mind if you click View Page Source :-) By the way, if you click on Modern Collections on that page, you are actually turning on/off 25,000 markers and it is almost instantaneous. There is also Marker Clustering available which lets you de-clutter maps with massive numbers of markers and automagically replace them with a single "fatter" marker.
There is a good tutorial here.
I have a set of routing data, in both CSV or KML format. It is basically a list of Lat / Lon and some supporting information.
I am looking for a way to display this as a route (e.g. with lines between the points in the order they appear in the list) online. Ideally a free option, as I'm not likely to need it again in the near future.
I have found hundreds (maybe an exageration) of ways of plotting the points, but not one that will include the lines. I'm trying to avoid the long and tedious process of converting one of these to an image and drawing the lines by hand.
Can anyone suggest such a site?
This question was asked on a google group for google maps. The user received an answer that pointed him towards the google map API. Given how other apps / web pages do this using google maps (never seen it done any other way) I would imagine this would be the best route to go down as its probably something they have built into the service.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-maps-js-api-v3/F_iroBiBeww
Or may be some other options.
We want to use Google Docs for all office operations, but faced with problem of big Excel files >3 000 records.
Is it justified to use DB and web interface over DB?
Yes, I think it's justifiable.
A Google Spreadsheet may have up to 400 thousand cells. So depending on how many columns your records have, it may fit nicely or not in an Google Spreadsheet.
If you have more than 133 columns (4e5/3e3) it will not fit, actually if you have around 100 columns (for this amount of records 3e3), I advise not using Google Spreadsheet as it will be too near the limit.
Google Fusion tables may be suitable to you, as it does not have such limitation, it's actually a 250MB total size limitation per account.