Title: [Plugin: Basic Google Maps Placemarks] Mass Import – CSV sample file
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Basic Google Maps Placemarks] Mass Import – CSV sample file

 *  [desmillicious](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desmillicious/)
 * (@desmillicious)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file/)
 * Hi everyone, if you are like me and needed to import lots of placemarks into 
   this great plugin then you can using a .csv file formatted correctly and the 
   [CSV Importer plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/) (which
   works with custom taxonomies).
 * Here we go:
    1) Download the[ CSV Importer plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/csv-importer/),
   install it into your wordpress 2) Create a dummy category (eg: Placemarks) – 
   this is not used but necessary for the importer to work 3) [Download the following .csv sample from here](http://okeydok.com/placemarks_csv_for_wordpress_importer.csv)
   file and open using xcel or open office and add your placemark information in
   the appropriate column: **IMPORTANT** column four (post_type) must have bgmp 
   for every adress, this ensures it is inserted into the Placemarks custom post
   type, and the plugin will see it. 4) save the file as a .csv using the “save 
   as” command 5) upload the file into the CSV Importer tool in wordpress, selecting
   your dummy category that you made in step 2.
 * DONE!
 * Notes:
    Unfortunately the addresses do not geo-code when you do this, but all
   you need to do to geo code them is edit each Placemark once they are uploaded
   and press “update”. It will then geo-code your placemarks. Also, if you are using
   Placemark categories, you will have to add these manually as there is no direct
   relationship between the Placemark and its category. This is due to the wordpress
   wp_terms_relationships data structure and there is no work-around that I am aware
   of.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/basic-google-maps-placemarks/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ian Dunn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iandunn/)
 * (@iandunn)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file/#post-2908049)
 * That’s awesome desmillicious, thanks for sharing 🙂
 *  [coopersquare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coopersquare/)
 * (@coopersquare)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file/#post-2908190)
 * I am uploading almost 800 data points. Is there anyway to “Update” all Placemarks
   at once, or whatever is necessary to geo-code all of them at once? Thanks! ~Daniel
 *  [Matt317](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt317/)
 * (@matt317)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file/#post-2908191)
 * Hello,
    I don’t understand how to fill the csv file. In the CSV sample, there
   is only one column and two lines like this :
 * **csv_post_title,bgmp_address,csv_post_post,csv_post_type
    Your Placemark Name,
   Your Placemark Address,Your Placemark Content (for the editor),bgmp
 * Can you give more precisions please.
 * Thank you !
 *  [ABCDiamond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abcdiamond/)
 * (@abcdiamond)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file/#post-2908192)
 * Matt,
    The comma in the example, is the column break so you have these FOUR column
   headers.
 * csv_post_title,
    bgmp_address, csv_post_post, csv_post_type
 * The second line is an example of what goes in each column.
    Col 1: Your Placemark
   Name, Col 2: Your Placemark Address, Col 3: Your Placemark Content (for the editor),
   Col 4: bgmp
 *  [Matt317](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt317/)
 * (@matt317)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-basic-google-maps-placemarks-mass-import-csv-sample-file/#post-2908193)
 * It’s works now ! Thank you !
    I think it’s not possible to add an icon image 
   for all placemarks at the same time…is it right ?

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