Sorry this isn’t working in Excel 2007, this is the first I’ve heard of this. I would imagine that from the error message you’ve reported, Microsoft has helped us by removing functionality we need to retrieve data for the map, probably to close a security hole. Unfortunately, I’m loathe to maintain this since the underlying data source (the Yahoo Maps API) may be shut down to converted into a for-pay service soon.

Now that I’ve left Yahoo I’m free to do stuff with maps on a consulting basis. If you have a tool in mind that requires mapping and you’d want to pursue this as a consulting engagement, please let me know.

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1. I use Opera 8 browser and the initial form set up by the template has a blank line at the top that left in causes Yahoo to return: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity. Line Number 2, Column 0. I’m assuming this is something being caused by Opera, or possibly something odd w/my installation of Excel, but will see what I can figure out.

2. I have an old and huge collection of geographic correspondences (FIPS codes, Capitals, Population in year X, name of currency, variations on names, names in native language/script, etc – small crosswalkish stuff that helps link up assorted datasets) & will use this opportunity to learn how to have the function GetCountry go through an external sorted list of cases queried out of that table (or someone else’s out there, I’m sure there’s more complete versions of the same idea already).

Wanted to let you know. I was pretty jazzed to see this work; I’d figured Excel would be a great tool to learn this sort of thing with but yours was the first one I tried that really made something happen. The aim is to get hooked. :)

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1. I use Opera 8 browser and the initial form set up by the template has a blank line at the top that left in causes Yahoo to return: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity. Line Number 2, Column 0. I’m assuming this is something being caused by Opera, or possibly something odd w/my installation of Excel, but will see what I can figure out.

2. I have an old and huge collection of geographic correspondences (FIPS codes, Capitals, Population in year X, name of currency, variations on names, names in native language/script, etc – small crosswalkish stuff that helps link up assorted datasets) & will use this opportunity to learn how to have the function GetCountry go through an external sorted list of cases queried out of that table (or someone else’s out there, I’m sure there’s more complete versions of the same idea already).

Wanted to let you know. I was pretty jazzed to see this work; I’d figured Excel would be a great tool to learn this sort of thing with but yours was the first one I tried that really made something happen. The aim is to get hooked. :)

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