Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Convert Google Maps "Want to go" to GPS Waypoints

[Robert L. <rob...@gp...>]

Hi, Angela.

You didn't provide the CSV, so we can't comment on the details, but we can
read location data from both CSV (at least a few hundred variations of it,
but someone always manages to come up with SOMETHING weird...) and KML.

That KML is astonishingly unhelp and whomever at Google wrote, reviewed,
and submitted that needs a lesson in KML. There's no actual location data
<Point> in there, so there are no coordinates for us to convert. A
contrived Placemark snippet might look like this:

      <Placemark>
        <name>WPT001</name>
        <styleUrl>#waypoint</styleUrl>
        <Point>
          <coordinates>45.670000,12.340000</coordinates>
        </Point>
      </Placemark>

So, no. If that's the level of data you have, it's basically a bookmark
list of links to drive traffic to someone's pet project instead of being
actually useful.

I'm not sure of the current state of pointy click mapping tools (perhaps
QGis or EasyGPS?) but we're definitely not that. We convert; we're not a
database or really a tool for manual edits and categorization and such.
Google used to have several such tools, but all that I knew of have been
shuttered. The web/mobile version of Earth has some facilities for that
task, but that's about all I should say about that.

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 4:47 AM Angela via Gpsbabel-misc <
gps...@li...> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
>
> Is there a possibility to convert the “Want to go” from Google Maps into
> GPS waypoints in gpx/kml format.
>
>
>
> “Want to go” keeps data like
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Black+Forest/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4790f95196107395:0xd8f0505a5dee80be
>
> Which I would like to have converted to waypoints.
>
>
>
> “Want to go”, I can Google Takeout “Saved”, which generates a CSV (there
> is no other option to retrieve this data), with title and the above URL:
>
> Black Forest,,
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Black+Forest/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4790fb65cca0ae4b:0xf30bbdde17988ee2
> ,
>
>
>
> The CSV I can import in a layer in MyMaps, from which I can export it into
> KML, where the above looks like:
>
>     <Placemark>
>
>       <name>Black Forest</name>
>
>       <address>Black Forest</address>
>
>       <description><![CDATA[Note: <br>URL:
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Black+Forest/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4790fb65cca0ae4b:0xf30bbdde17988ee2<br>Comment:
> ]]></description>
>
>       <styleUrl>#icon-1899-0288D1-labelson</styleUrl>
>
>       <ExtendedData>
>
>         <Data name="Note">
>
>           <value/>
>
>         </Data>
>
>         <Data name="URL">
>
>           <value>
> https://www.google.com/maps/place/Black+Forest/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4790fb65cca0ae4b:0xf30bbdde17988ee2
> </value>
>
>         </Data>
>
>         <Data name="Comment">
>
>           <value/>
>
>         </Data>
>
>       </ExtendedData>
>
>     </Placemark>
>
>
>
> Is there a way to convert any of the 2 formats into GPS waypoints?
>
>
>
> OT:
>
> What I would like to achieve is:
>
> My “Want to go” contain world-wide places.
>
> With Google MyMaps I would like to include only a subset of the “Want to
> go” into a map, which is only a specific region, e.g. south Germany. Also,
> as MyMaps has the bothersome behavior to zoom out to all waypoints in a map.
>
> I am also looking for a tool to select multiple waypoints visually by
> marking an area or ctrl-clicking them, and thereafter copy/delete/etc. them.
>
> I could have split “Want to go” in personal “region” folders, but would
> still like to use a tool to do this visually.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help/ideas
>
> Angela
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