[PLUG-TALK] Google maps, list to placemark

[Keith Lofstrom]

I have a list of about 100 latitude, longitude points and some
associated text data that I would like to place on a Google
MyMap.  Is there a dead simple way to do this, some preexisting
tool that does not require diving into the API, or at least some
example code I can plagiarize?

Motivation:
http://server-sky.com/OceanStoreCO2

The points represent earthquakes (ranging up to moment magnitude
6.8 over the last 35 years) in the vicinity of the Romanche
Trench through the mid-Atlantic ridge, between Africa and South
America.  This trench is interesting because at that depth,
pressure, and temperature, CO2 is a stable liquid 10% denser
than water.  With two huge rock fill dams on the east and west
ends of the trench, and a BIG plastic cover to keep the LCO2
from mixing with seawater, this trench can store a century's
worth of anthropogenic CO2 as a liquid.  It would be about
100x the effort of the Three Gorges Dam; the plastic cover
would be about a week of current global plastic production.  

Geoengineering is not as good as eliminating carbon emissions,
but since everyone I know uses stuff made and transported with
energy, and eats food grown on land converted to agriculture
(the dominant source of CO2 increase before 1940), I'm afraid
we won't cut emissions to zero any time soon, much less learn
to operate "carbon negative".   Geoengineering is cheaper than
finding another planet to live on after we kill this one.

Trench sequestration won't be cheap, and will need big sources
of non-carbon energy to capture and pump the CO2 7 kilometers
down, but it is cheaper and cleaner than most of the crazy
schemes I've heard about.  A fun idea to noodle with, anyway.

Keith

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