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Title: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Rothman on March 23, 2017, 02:13:19 PM
If only I could overlay my maps from mob-rule.com and Travel Mapping on top of each other in Google Maps...

That may be too much of a good thing to wish for.
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: froggie on March 23, 2017, 02:16:59 PM
Just discovered that the former is available.  Goog has been changing their API interface too often for TM to keep up...
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Rothman on March 23, 2017, 02:20:13 PM
My knowledge on manipulating GoogleMaps is very thin indeed.  How on Earth do you export the mob-rule map to overlay it?
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Jim on March 23, 2017, 02:32:27 PM
Quote from: froggie on March 23, 2017, 02:16:59 PM
Just discovered that the former is available.  Goog has been changing their API interface too often for TM to keep up...

Is something not working in TM?
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Rothman on March 23, 2017, 04:55:45 PM
Hold on a minute, Froggie, were you just talking about how you can view your mob-rule map in Google Maps?  I've been doing that all along.

What I'm wishing for is to take it as a GIS layer and layer it over the TM map and then even another Google Map I have of places I want to visit.  Layer them all on each other into one "super map." :D
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: vdeane on March 23, 2017, 07:00:47 PM
Given that TM only approximates the route, I'm not sure if combining it with mob-rule would be 100% accurate.
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Rothman on March 23, 2017, 08:45:11 PM
Pfft.  TM is already using Google Maps.  Good 'nuff.
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Jim on March 23, 2017, 09:21:44 PM
It would be pretty good to see them overlapped, though, so you could give a quick look to see if any of your TM-plotted travels entered a county that you didn't have marked as visited on mob-rule.
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Rothman on March 23, 2017, 11:32:37 PM
I'll just have to print them all out on transparencies. :D
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Bruce on March 24, 2017, 01:09:01 AM
Import Wikipedia KMLs into Google Earth or Google My Maps and snip them as needed.

Google My Maps is a really neat web-based tool. I use it to track my transit clinches: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1oxn4Zh08XB1DwESIUEdso8lxE4I
Title: Re: Wishful Thinking: Overlays in GoogleMaps
Post by: Rothman on March 24, 2017, 09:26:01 AM
Quote from: Bruce on March 24, 2017, 01:09:01 AM
Import Wikipedia KMLs into Google Earth or Google My Maps and snip them as needed.

Google My Maps is a really neat web-based tool. I use it to track my transit clinches: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1oxn4Zh08XB1DwESIUEdso8lxE4I

Heh.  Yeah, I suppose I could go through the trouble of recreating my mob-rule and TM maps on my own and do that.  It's just a pity that there isn't an "Export as KML" button!