Request for de-googling advice:
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones I haven't tried export from google specifically in a Long time. But geodata conversion tools are iirc quite common, so it should be adequate as an initial backup to get the data out in any format it'll give you. Assuming it will cough it up at all. Damned good question tho.
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@NilaJones I haven't tried export from google specifically in a Long time. But geodata conversion tools are iirc quite common, so it should be adequate as an initial backup to get the data out in any format it'll give you. Assuming it will cough it up at all. Damned good question tho.
Thank you, and that is very encouraging! I would hate to lose all the info
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones You could try the data export feature ("Google Takeout"), it takes a bit but it *should* include saved places like this.
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@NilaJones You could try the data export feature ("Google Takeout"), it takes a bit but it *should* include saved places like this.
Yes. For me the harder part is knowing which different mapping program I can upload it to, and how to do that
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
OK, I looked this up and here's 3 I came up with. Hopefully one of these will help.
https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/928
https://help.mapotic.com/how-to-migrate-your-map-from-google-my-maps/
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Yes. For me the harder part is knowing which different mapping program I can upload it to, and how to do that
@NilaJones @elomatreb I've been playing with Comaps which uses OSM data (which is a thing you can upload to) and it looks pretty good. For my personal maps (with trails and secret camping spots) I use Caltopo, which accepts several different import formats. I've never tried exporting from Google though. Good luck!
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@NilaJones @elomatreb I've been playing with Comaps which uses OSM data (which is a thing you can upload to) and it looks pretty good. For my personal maps (with trails and secret camping spots) I use Caltopo, which accepts several different import formats. I've never tried exporting from Google though. Good luck!
Thank you!
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones Maybe keep your Google account just for those and build a website to start telling people about those camp sites while also adding them to OSM? Don't know if OSM supports camp sites but I'd like to find out.
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones I like caltopo a lot for anything outdoorsy, but it could get tedious with that many sites since you probably wouldn’t want to just dump them all on a single map. It’s also proprietary/non-free, in case that’s a factor.
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
I dunno about exporting them, but as for a "kindlier map service" I recommend #Leaflet - I have been doing some interactive maps with it recently:
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Main_Page
https://sunkencastles.com/german-folklore-map/ -
@NilaJones Maybe keep your Google account just for those and build a website to start telling people about those camp sites while also adding them to OSM? Don't know if OSM supports camp sites but I'd like to find out.
It's possible to do custom OSM-based maps with Leaflet, which should work with most websites.
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones caltopo.com is a great mapping site.
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones my guess is find some tool that exports the list of places into the GPX format, like this? https://www.takeout-tools.com/blog/google-maps-saved-places-to-gpx-guide
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones
I'd be interested co know this too... -
Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones If you have locations saved in Google (waypoints as opposed to routes or tracks),
Maps -> menu icon -> Your Data in Maps (opens in new page)
Donwload your Maps Data -> (opens in new page)You can download "Maps (your places geojson ) and "My Maps" (kmz)
The app GPSBabel can convert from different formats and you can then import into whatever new service you have chosen. You can unzip KMZ into KML if this is what they accept.
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@NilaJones If you have locations saved in Google (waypoints as opposed to routes or tracks),
Maps -> menu icon -> Your Data in Maps (opens in new page)
Donwload your Maps Data -> (opens in new page)You can download "Maps (your places geojson ) and "My Maps" (kmz)
The app GPSBabel can convert from different formats and you can then import into whatever new service you have chosen. You can unzip KMZ into KML if this is what they accept.
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@NilaJones my guess is find some tool that exports the list of places into the GPX format, like this? https://www.takeout-tools.com/blog/google-maps-saved-places-to-gpx-guide
Yeah that's not the problem. The problem is what to do with the data after downloading it. But someone else had the solution!
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Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones
Waypoints: a specific point (latitude, long, possibly elevation, along with name, comment etc). EG: Google calls them "Placemarks")Route: A set of waypoints between A and B (where A and B are waypoints)
Track: a set of lat/lon/elevation and time that were captured by a GPS during a trip. (linestring)
To understand the data you will be getting from Google:
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlreferencegeojson:
https://geojson.org/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7946 -
Request for de-googling advice:
I have thousands, maybe 10,000, locations saved in google maps. Mostly these are informal camping sites, not things that can be found by a web search
Is there a way I can transfer these to a different, friendlier, map service?
@NilaJones I am from Garmin religion, so use Garmin Basecamp. You can load their proprietary maps ($). Or you can have openstreetmaps generate a file in Garmin's format that can be imported into basecamp. You can have your database of points, routes etc on your computer.
Garmin uses the "standard" GPX formats. But I think it can import/export Google's KML (KML , like arcgis use longtitude, latitude while rest of world uses standard latitude,longitude).
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@NilaJones
Waypoints: a specific point (latitude, long, possibly elevation, along with name, comment etc). EG: Google calls them "Placemarks")Route: A set of waypoints between A and B (where A and B are waypoints)
Track: a set of lat/lon/elevation and time that were captured by a GPS during a trip. (linestring)
To understand the data you will be getting from Google:
https://developers.google.com/kml/documentation/kmlreferencegeojson:
https://geojson.org/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7946The locations I have are not GPS derived, and are not routes. I guess that means they are waypoints???
I created them by clicking each spot on the map, on my phone, when I was NOT at the location
Does that make sense? It's kind of hard to describe clearly!
Google allows these spots to be labeled with categories. I have maybe seven categories
