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Someone recommended this converter: http://nearby.org.uk/convert-saved-places.php |
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resurecting this topic.. for a smooth transition from google maps to organic maps, there should be a clear way on how to export/import places |
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Hi,
I would like to import my Google Maps Saved Places to Organic Maps. TL;DR: it works kind off with tokml, but titles are missing.
First I recognized that you have to use Google Takeout to get your Saved Places machine readable, it will output them as GeoJSON. This does not include Places you have saved in a custom list. They are exported as Bookmarks without any helpful metadata. So if you want to export them, you have to manually move them to the default list.
Second it seems that organic maps imports only kml files. So I had to use https://github.com/mapbox/tokml to convert my data to KML. Just install it using
npm install -g tokml
and then run tokml from the commandline. Importing the output file in organic maps works, but the titles are missing, every imported place has its coordinates as title.When comparing my converted google maps export with an export from organic maps, you can actually see some differences, so it is propably a fixable problem.
But before tweaking tokml to get a better match, I wanted to ask if there is a simpler way to achieve that?
Maybe offering a direct import from google takeout's geojson in organic maps might be interesting to make the exodus from google even easier?
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