Google My Maps to uMap

[Luen]

I'm currently in the process of changing from Google My Maps to uMap. When importing from MyMaps (KML file export) the layers and icons are not coming across. Also hidden layers are visible.
Here's an example of a map I've exported and imported into uMap. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1COxEDptfz4uNU3v0BK4UqCACj7Q&usp=sharing

Is this something that will be supported in the future?

[yohanboniface]

uMap uses https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson/ to convert KML, so we more or less do what this lib can do. I'll have a look anyway to see what we can do to make this import smoother.

[Luen]

@yohanboniface Thank you.

[tuxor1337]

I had a look into the output of Google My Maps (GMM) and at least for the layers, it would be necessary to consider the <folder> tags which are not supported by togeojson: https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson/issues/64

For the icons, GMM chooses the style ids in such a way that color and shape can be extracted from it: The id format is icon-<shape_id>-<hexcolor>-labelson. Of course, not all icons in GMM can be expected to have corresponding icons in umap - especially because the set of available icons can differ from instance to instance. We could host a reference collection of icons corresponding to the GMM icons somewhere and link to them via the icon URL feature of umap.

Actually, if you are a developer and you are interested in this issue, I would suggest writing a standalone conversion tool from GMM output to the umap json format. This will already be extremely useful in itself. Moreover, once we have this it should be doable to integrate similar functionality into umap.

[numeropi]

I had a similar problem importing a .kml that came from GAFAM MyMaps into Umap and the description wasn't well imported... ex:

in umap it got imported as: [object Object]

(see screnshot)