Request for de-googling advice:
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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
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@NilaJones @jfmezei
I'm really grateful to see that.
Hoping that it'll work in open maps (almost certain it will) when I get onto that task later... -
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 put them on openstreetmap?
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Yeah that's not the problem. The problem is what to do with the data after downloading it. But someone else had the solution!
@NilaJones oh, i'm sorry then
good to hear someone provided the solution though
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The 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
@NilaJones If they are individual points, they are most likely waypoints (placemarks in Google language). The categories are likely not transferable because theya re akin to folders.
If you export to kmz , unzip it to KML and edit a file you will likely see each item begins with a <placemark> tag.
(image is an example placemark wlots of options including location of "camera" (the lookAt tag) when you view it from Google Earth).
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@NilaJones If they are individual points, they are most likely waypoints (placemarks in Google language). The categories are likely not transferable because theya re akin to folders.
If you export to kmz , unzip it to KML and edit a file you will likely see each item begins with a <placemark> tag.
(image is an example placemark wlots of options including location of "camera" (the lookAt tag) when you view it from Google Earth).
I won't mind too much if they don't have the labels anymore, as long as I don't have to go through thousands of individual items and delete the label markers in order to get the data to upload
It's late night here and I am tired and I don't even want to think about that possibility!
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