Import from Google Maps Link?

[Drabslab]

@David-Skinner

hai,

Just out of curiosity: why would you import routes from google maps and not make these directly in the MRA Routeplanner?

[Jack van Tilburg]

@Drabslab
Or; why would you make a route yourself in MRA if you got a nice one via a Google link?

[Drabslab]

@Jack-van-Tilburg said in Import from Google Maps Link?:

@Drabslab
Or; why would you make a route yourself in MRA if you got a nice one via a Google link?

Ah, that makes it clear

I thought that what was meant was to prepare a route in google maps and then download this to MRA

[Tim Thompson]

Or... Maybe you might want to use Google Maps and/or My Maps as a free route planner (or maybe something to augment another planner). It's already been mentioned - somebody could share a Google Maps/My Maps link. If so, would be nice to be able to easly import it.

Considering free/alternative route planners... To be honest, I might consider My Maps as a #2 goto - behind Furkot. Scenic's feature to import from Google Maps/My Maps links actually works fairly well.

[Stanisław]

There is a free tool to quickly convert google maps ling to GPX, whoch could be imported to MRA, maybe it is a solution:
(https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert_input)

[Jack van Tilburg]

@Stanisław
That would be nice. But unfortunately it only works if you have an API Key.

[Stanisław]

@Jack-van-Tilburg I didn't try it recently, pity
The same is in case ot Tire application, added to Tomtom.
There is a possibility tu use own api key free for limited use but I didn't want to try it.

[Jack van Tilburg]

@Stanisław
I think those actions will be too complicated for the average user.

[Stanisław]

@Jack-van-Tilburg For sure... I have moved to MRA with planning and I like it very much, but sometimes someone is sending me simply link to google maps and I have the same problem to open it it MRA.

[Jack van Tilburg]

@Stanisław
I have no idea how great the need for this feature is among MRA users.
I'm sure there will be an inventory for Roadmap3 in due course and then users can ask for it.

[Con Hennekens]

@Jack-van-Tilburg, @Tim-Thompson and @David-Skinner, I could suggest to ask in a google forum to implement GPX export, but... yeah.... I think we all would do good to teach people who share Google Maps routes that there are better methods for it

[Em Pir]

@Jack-van-Tilburg, @Tim-Thompson and @David-Skinner, I could suggest to ask in a google forum to implement GPX export, but...

MyRoute-app taught me that there are MANY flavors of gpx files.