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Bring your places with you.

Pinsake reads the files other map apps give you. Check yours below before you sign up: it opens right here in your browser and is not uploaded anywhere.

Drop a map file here to see what is inside

KML from Google My Maps or Google Earth, GPX from a GPS or hiking app, GeoJSON, or a CSV spreadsheet.

Your file stays on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere until you import it into your own account.

How to

Step by step, from where your places are now.

Google My MapsKML

Each layer in your map becomes a list, and pin colours come along.

  1. Open your map at mymaps.google.com.
  2. Open the menu (the three dots next to the map name) and choose Export to KML/KMZ.
  3. Tick Export to a .KML file (not KMZ) and download it.
  4. In Pinsake open Import and export and choose the file.

Google Maps starred placesGeoJSON

Your starred places from Google Maps come out of Google Takeout.

  1. Go to takeout.google.com and choose only Maps (your places).
  2. Create the export and download the zip when Google emails you.
  3. Unzip it and find Saved Places.json.
  4. Import that file into Pinsake. A few places in Takeout files have no position; those are skipped and listed.

Google EarthKML

Folders become lists. Pins come in; lines and shapes are skipped for now.

  1. In Google Earth, right-click a folder or project and choose Save place as, or use Export as KML file in a project.
  2. Save it as .kml.
  3. Import it into Pinsake.

GPS and hiking appsGPX

Waypoints from Komoot, AllTrails, Garmin, OsmAnd and most GPS apps.

  1. Export or download the route or collection as GPX.
  2. Import it into Pinsake. Each waypoint becomes a pin.
  3. Want the track too? Draw it with the line tool, or keep the GPX for your GPS.

SpreadsheetsCSV

Any spreadsheet with a latitude and a longitude column.

  1. Use columns called name, latitude and longitude. Optional: list, notes, address, tags, link, date, color.
  2. Save it as CSV (commas, semicolons and tabs all work).
  3. Import it into Pinsake. The list column makes lists.

Other mapping toolsGeoJSON

QGIS, uMap, geojson.io and most mapping tools save GeoJSON.

  1. Save or export your layer as GeoJSON.
  2. Import it. Names, notes, colours (marker-color) and tags are read.

Export

Leaving is as easy as arriving.

Your map is yours. Download all of it, or one list, whenever you like. No account needed to read the files, and no lock-in.

GeoJSONEverything: pins, lines, areas, colours, symbols, tags and dates.
KMLFor Google Earth and My Maps, with each list as a folder.
GPXFor GPS units and hiking apps. Lines and areas become tracks.
CSVPins as a spreadsheet, one row per place.

In the app: open the account menu, choose Import and export, pick the lists and the format, and press Download.

lisbon-weekend.geojsonGeoJSON
{ "type": "Feature",
  "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [-9.13257, 38.71929] },
  "properties": { "name": "Miradouro da Senhora do Monte",
    "list": "Lisbon weekend", "status": "been", "rating": 5 } }
lisbon-weekend.kmlKML
<Folder><name>Lisbon weekend</name>
  <Placemark><name>Castelo de São Jorge</name>
    <Point><coordinates>-9.13358,38.71391,0</coordinates></Point>
lisbon-weekend.gpxGPX
<wpt lat="38.70688" lon="-9.14594">
  <name>Time Out Market</name><desc>Lunch.</desc></wpt>
<trk><name>Tram 28</name><trkseg>...
lisbon-weekend.csvCSV
name,latitude,longitude,list,notes
LX Factory,38.70362,-9.17862,Lisbon weekend,Bookshop...

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