How to move your Google Maps Saved Lists to Gaia GPS
This is not a question. I found a way to move your Google Maps Saved Lists to Gaia GPS via Google My Maps. I want to let you good folks know in case you need to do the same.
First, I use Google Takeout to Generate csv files of my lists. Note that for some insane reason, google doesn't give the gps coordinates of your waypoints points in your saved lists but instead gives a "context URL" that only google can understand in many cases. (You need to get gps coordinates somehow.) There is a website that will convert your takeout csv file to a geolocated one as it adds gps coordinates to the csv file. I run my takeout csv file through this website and then get a new csv file downloaded that is now correctly geocoded.
I next take the geocoded csv file and import it into a new google my map. After the import you can now export a kml file from that new google my map. You can now import that kml file into gaia gps.
I like that you have your saved points in both my maps and gaia gps depending on what I want to do with them.
I then delete the original google maps saved list and start a new one in its place. I have found that google maps saved lists are very unwieldy when they get too many waypoints in them and just don't work well in general. Google maps saved lists are fantastic for saving points quickly and easily that you find but using those waypoints on google maps is just a horrible experience chocked full of frustrations, thus exporting them and using them on google my maps and Gaia is a great option when you want to actually make use of those saved points. Plus, Google is constantly changing its systems and retiring stuff so you never know if your saved lists will even exist and work properly from one month to the next, so best to save them elsewhere once you have all those great waypoints saved. Plus after you find a great waypoint that you want to visit (I used them for finding boondocking spots and hot springs) google may just delete that point because someone in the public told them to and you can never find that waypoint again the way google tends to save them with their crazy insane context URL.
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Just so you know when you use google takeout to save your saved lists you need deselect all the takeout selections and then select the "SAVED" option. Google has another seperate option to takeout Favorites and Starred lists (that are older google map functions and handled completely differently than normal saved lists.) You will find the SAVED option down near the bottom of the very long list of takeout selections. (When you do takeout on the starred list you do get a geocoded csv, which is weird of google to handle these saved lists differently than all the others. This difference causes all kinds of confusion even among their so-called product experts who constantly give wrong answers about saved lists on their google maps forum by assuming they work like the starred list which they absolutely do not.)
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What website did you use to convert the csv data to geolocated?
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The website is exportgooglemaps.com
It takes your saved lists from google takeout and added gps locations to the csv file so that it can be imported into a google my maps map (and other applications such as Gaia GPS).
If you use exportgooglemaps.com, please consider contributing to the developer so that they continue to support and upgrade it. (I sent them $25).
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I could not find a privacy statement on that website. I'm a bit suspicious of the use of my data by a company/developer located in another country (Japan).?.?
Has anyone found any other resources to make these connection between exported google data?
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