This may be a naive question, but I'll try anyway.
I am working in QGIS, and I have a shape file with more than 2000 rows containing information about specific trees in a botanical garden; their location in the garden as well as the age of the tree, and – importantly – where the seed for the tree originated. This last information is however stored as real text ("Honshu, Toyama Prefect, Japan" for instance). I would like to be able to take this entire column of text fields and, through a google maps lookup or something like that, convert these in to coordinates, so that I can use this column to plot the origins on a world map.
Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this, the conversion of real text to coordinates?
