Installing POI into Google Maps??
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Has anybody tried this?
A google search brings up some info.
Step 1: Prepare your info
Import a file
Make sure your info is one of these file types:
CSV
Files can be up to 40MB.
The first row should contain titles. To import data properly, make sure you have a column with one of the following:
-Latitude-longitude information
-Addresses
-Place names
Step 2: Import info into the map
-On your computer, sign in to My Maps.
-Open or create a map.
-In the map legend, click Add layer.
-Give the new layer a name.
-Under the new layer, click Import.
-Choose or upload the file or photos containing your info, then click Select.
-Map features are added automatically.
Now looking at a csv file on POI, a new column would have to be added as the first cloumn to show the title.
To our POI maimtainers, is this correct?
Has anybody tried this?
I'm looking for the POI's for Sheetz, Rest Areas & Tim Horton's
Flagpole Photographers Club
The Flagpole Photographers Club has an excellent pdf that explains how to load Custom POIs to Google Maps. Google Help is just not as clear:
http://www.flagpolephotographers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017...
dobs108
Different GPS apps for different needs?
It IS possible to load POIs into Google Maps, but (in my experience) it's kludgy at best, and you do hit a limit of how many can get imported at once. (Found this out the hard way trying to do a Google Maps version of the Rest Areas POI!)
For nationwide coverage I generally do prefer non-Google Maps, non-Waze options (like CoPilot Maps or even Locus Pro)--as those do work gracefully with CSV or OV2 files (in CoPilot's case) or GPX or KML files (in the case of Locus).
At least to me, Google Maps and Waze are a bit more useful in urban travel--you know the POI, you know the name and possibly the address of the POI, you want to know the best way through traffic to get to the POI.
If you're doing Google-based conversions, my own recommendation would be actually to get a copy of Extra POI Editor, and then convert to OV2 (for CoPilot which is free). To view in a Google product, convert to KML and view in the desktop version of Google Earth.
dbusguy wrote: Has anybody
Has anybody tried this?
A google search brings up some info.
Step 1: Prepare your info
Import a file
Make sure your info is one of these file types:
CSV
Files can be up to 40MB.
The first row should contain titles. To import data properly, make sure you have a column with one of the following:
-Latitude-longitude information
-Addresses
-Place names
Step 2: Import info into the map
-On your computer, sign in to My Maps.
-Open or create a map.
-In the map legend, click Add layer.
-Give the new layer a name.
-Under the new layer, click Import.
-Choose or upload the file or photos containing your info, then click Select.
-Map features are added automatically.
Now looking at a csv file on POI, a new column would have to be added as the first cloumn to show the title.
To our POI maimtainers, is this correct?
Has anybody tried this?
I'm looking for the POI's for Sheetz, Rest Areas & Tim Horton's
I use imported POI files in Google Maps. It works fine for me.