Joost

Yes this tool is for the original directions, – not that saved to ‘My Maps’

Google My Maps does not support export of Saved Directions and/or hand drawn ‘Snap to Roads’ – either direct to Google Earth or in a way a toll like this one could use.

A tool could be made to work around the limiation but it would be a lot of work, and/or of dubious legality.

I’m getting unable to parse query response, I think as it’s a saved map?

If I use the ‘view in google earth’ button from Firefox and / or append the ‘&output=kml’ to the end of the link, I can get the file into GE, but it doesn’t replicate the precise route on the roads, just an approximation using straight lines – am I expecting too much to get a precise mapping that matches GM? Are there limits on the number of way points (haven’t used vias just grabbed white circles

no, this tool is for a route created in the ‘directions’ feature. not for one created in ‘My Maps’

you should be able to use the kml file from the ‘view in google earth’ link directly in something like gpsvisualiser.com to convert the file to a gpx for loading into your unit.

Would this tool be useful for me?

So far I have tested it creating a very simple path in GM, yet when I click on the LINK TO THIS MAP and copy the URL and paste it into the Multi Destination Routing url box, when I click CONTINUE I get the message “unable to parse query, please try again”. I get the same message if I append the end of the Link url with “&output=kml”

The Linked URL I am using is: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=-12.545096,27.877293&spn=0.01994,0.042315&t=h&z=15&msid=106489627415814544154.00046c0ece6adc1c33339

Would appreciate any help on this.

Many thanks
Paolo Cuturi

“&output=kml”

without the quotation marks. This tells Google to give the contents to you in a kml file, which you can open in Google Earth.

Firstly love your work on this tool – it’s what google should have written in the first place. After of course they let us use more that 24 checkpoints in a single a google maps route. But I digress…

Currently you exporter gives us a kml with a bunch of network links in it, which is great if I am online with google earth but if I want to use it in offline mode it doesn’t look to me (unless I am missing something) like google earth caches the network routes so I’m out of luck.

Would it be possible for your converter to ask if you want a networked linked kml output (the current functionality) or a static version?

If the user asked for a static version it’s “simply” a case of asking google maps to resolve the next step down for the network path (it gives you a static path) and splicing the resulting kmls together.

What’s our chances of getting you to do that? wink wink…

It was a local map for Atlanta, GA metro area (to get to my daughters volleyball match from work and then home after). When I imported (follwoing directions) it was routing me through Pennsylvania…a little out of the way for what I had planned.

Anyway – thanks for the help, but Google really needs some method for saving routings, both multiple destination and customized destination. I like a lot of what Google maps does, but saving customized routes would be a big advance.

You use this tool to create a KML file from a ‘Link to this page’ when viewing the directions – the other tutorial tip post mentions you can then import the KML produced by this tool back into a My Map – to save it.