• jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    Good and all, but as somebody mentioned on the Masto comments this shouldn’t be needed, this is taking an open JSON file and turning it into a proprietary Google-only format so that Organic Maps can import it, that feature should be on the app itself already.

    Also as you’re uploading that data to a random website you’re effectively doxxing yourself as your important addresses likely will be there, your home, your workplace, etc.

    Edit: Was mistaken and corrected below, the format IS a standard, not proprietary, in addition the author answered in Masto clarifying that all the conversion happens in the browser without uploading anything. That said, i do insist that the app should support uploading in this geojson format, specially since it’s what Google Takeout gives you

    • Markaos@lemmy.one
      22·
      2 months ago

      proprietary Google-only format

      Keyhole Markup Language

      KML became an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium in 2008.

      (…)

      The KML 2.2 specification was submitted to the Open Geospatial Consortium to assure its status as an open standard for all geobrowsers.

      • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I understood it was Google-only, great to be mistaken about it. Still, the app should also support that geojson importation format too, there shouldn’t be a need for external tools, SPECIALLY since it’s what Google Takeout gives you, this very much should be a feature of the app.

          • Asetru@feddit.org
            2·
            2 months ago

            I doubt the actual “feature” is much more than a single line that tells GDAL to translate it from one format to the next, so the real thing here is the convenience of having a webpage that provides this special case as a service. Geojson is easy to read in essentially every language now, so this shouldn’t have been hard to do even before this website.

    • ninjaphysics@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 months ago

      Hilariously, I have about the same number saved. It’s all kinds of places that I’ve been, want to go to, or just want to keep saved as reference, from all over the world. They just kinda built up over the years and I’m thankful for this thread because I want to make the switch.

  • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 months ago

    Does Organic Maps has the social aspect of Google Maps? Maps is the only thing Google I wasn’t able to quit yet, whenever I want to go to a restaurant I NEED to look at the pictures of the food and read reviews. I discovered such amazing gems with it.

    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      Unfortunately there are very few open review projects and none that people have tried to actually integrate into one of the OSM apps. It makes me rather disappointed as finding businesses and checking reviews is one of the most common uses I have for Google Maps and yet OSM cannot replace it.