Comments on: How to import custom points from Google Maps to Locus and vice versa

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:14:01 +0000

Hallo Leute,

ich musste schmunzeln als ich diesen Artikel gelesen habe, denn genau so mache ich das seit Jahren auch. Google My Maps eignet sich am PC perfekt um eine Reise zu planen. Ich speichere/ exportiere mir die .KMZ Datei dann direkt aus Google My Maps und importiere diese dann in Locus Maps.

Nachfolgend mal meine erstellten Karten. Vielleicht hilft das dem Einen oder Anderen ja bei der kommen Urlaubsplanung weiter.

IRLAND/ DUBLIN: http://kuerzer.de/irland
MALLORCA TOUR http://kuerzer.de/mallorca
MANCHESTER TOUR http://kuerzer.de/manchester
SCHOTTLAND TOUR http://kuerzer.de/schottlandtour

Gruß
Boris

By: Wilfried Viebahn

Wilfried Viebahn — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:11:13 +0000

Some constraints on Google My Maps and how to solve them
Hello Matěj and Adriana,
I’m happy you gave this very good explanation of exchange between Locus and Google My Maps. I’ve done this for years already, but never took the time of explaining it to others, especially so well as you did it now. In doing this I found that there ist one limit in Google My Maps and how to overcome it:
Per map you are restricted to 10 layers, so if you want to enter more than ten routes to one map (say of Czech Republic), you’ll have to start a second map. To overcome this, there is the possibility of combining a number of (gpx- or kml-) routes to one route with the Windows app GPSBabel (www.gpsbabel.org). So you export the whole My Maps map as kml-map, delete all the 10 layers in your My Maps map, and import the combined one kml-map with your 10 routes to your My Maps as one layer. Now you will have all 10 routes in one My Maps layer, and you can add another 9 layers to your My Maps map. With this method I got more than 100 routes on one My Maps map (see as an example: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nvt2yqFQO9EHk7CTLZvZr2Ou7ejvTSkh&usp=sharing).
There is just one limit to the size of imported files to My Maps: they may not be larger than 5 MB per layer. But with 10 layers you can enter a total of up to 50 MB of routes to one map – and that is a lot!
Matěj and Adriana, if you like this, I would be happy if you could explain it as an addendum to your wonderful article in the wonderful way you have explained your part – I believe it would be very useful to Locus users. I you want to, I would translate my text to German, too.
Best greetings,
Wilfried Viebahn, Germany

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:09:25 +0000

Danke für diese wirklich nützliche kleine Anleitung!
es hat super geklappt alle Punkte aus MyMaps nach Locus zu exportieren.
Optimal für die Urlaubsvorbereitung.

By: soeratno

soeratno — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:21:42 +0000

useful tips

By: Matěj Halouska

Matěj Halouska — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:21:46 +0000

In reply to Jürgen Gärtner. Unfortunately, Google My Maps mobile app has just a very limited functionality. You need to create the map on the web version of My Maps if you want to use features like changing colors and icons of points.

By: Jürgen Gärtner

Jürgen Gärtner — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:02:11 +0000

I do not know which version of “Google My Maps” you use, on my Android 6 phone the latest version in play store is 2.1 from 04.05.2016. The only properties I can assign to a defined point are Name and Description. So I see not any advantage to the many possibilities Locus offers to me with points, tracks and routes.

By: Locus team

Locus team — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 08:02:11 +0000

In reply to Petr Kroupa.

Dobrý den,
dodržel jste přesně uvedený postup? Nám vše funguje… Pokud chcete pomoci, obraťte se prosím na naši podporu na help.locusmap.eu.

By: Petr Kroupa

Petr Kroupa — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:50:30 +0000

Nefunguje. Při tvorbě nové mapy gps soubor nevezme a hlásí chybu.