Comment on Project for people leaving Google Maps.
jherazob@beehaw.org 1 month 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.
Markaos@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Keyhole Markup Language
jherazob@beehaw.org 1 month 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.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Now that this project exists, I’m sure it’d be relatively trivial to implement in the app
Asetru@feddit.org 1 month 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.