Resolved: Help importing tracks into Google Maps

[jungleboy]

Edit: now resolved thanks to @Turigrino and @Theresa Brandon!

May I please ask for some help importing tracks for the Geira e dos Arrieiros into Google Maps? I am on camino with only my phone and as I understand it, I cannot create a map and import tracks into Google Maps on a mobile device. I can import to Maps.me or Wikiloc but these are far less preferable for me than Google Maps for various reasons.

Would someone who is comfortable with Google Maps like to help me please? The tracks are available in GPX or KML format here. If someone could create a map in Google Maps, import the tracks and DM me for my email address to share the map with me, I should be able to open it on my phone.

Thank you!

 

[WanderingBrian]

if you have the KML, download Google Earth. You can import right there on your mobile.

 

[jungleboy]

if you have the KML, download Google Earth. You can import right there on your mobile.

Thanks but that’s not really what I want. I want the standard map view and not satellite view.

 

[WanderingBrian]

Thanks but that’s not really what I want. I want the standard map view and not satellite view.

Ah. Gotcha!

 

[Robo]

Edit: now resolved thanks to @Turigrino and @Theresa Brandon!

May I please ask for some help importing tracks for the Geira e dos Arrieiros into Google Maps? I am on camino with only my phone and as I understand it, I cannot create a map and import tracks into Google Maps on a mobile device. I can import to Maps.me or Wikiloc but these are far less preferable for me than Google Maps for various reasons.

Would someone who is comfortable with Google Maps like to help me please? The tracks are available in GPX or KML format here. If someone could create a map in Google Maps, import the tracks and DM me for my email address to share the map with me, I should be able to open it on my phone.

Thank you!

How did you resolve it?
Having the tracks on Google Maps would be useful!

 

[jungleboy]

It was 2.5 years ago so I can't quite remember! But the issue was that I was already on camino at the time and only had a phone with me and I needed a computer to do what I needed to do.

In the end I found tracks on Google Maps to not be as helpful as I thought, because (IIRC) they are overlaid on the map and the overlay keeps disappearing and you have to repeatedly go into some setting to have it show again (at least that was my experience). Eventually I decided Maps.me was better for tracks for that reason and others, so I use that for the trail and Google Maps for towns/cities, and even though using two map apps seems a bit cumbersome, it works well enough for me.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eventually I decided Maps.me was better for tracks for that reason and others, so I use that for the trail and Google Maps for towns/cities, and even though using two map apps seems a bit cumbersome, it works well enough for me.

On my last camino I used four apps. Wikiloc for the walking, OSMand for looking around an area (I could have used Wikiloc for this too but I didn't want to possibly break a running session), Google Maps when approaching a town so I could see places of interest (food, drinks) that I wouldn't be able to see from the Camino, IGN's Mapas de España for its topological features when I started approaching the Pyrenees (instead of using OSMand there).

 

[David Tallan]

Does anyone know where GPS tracks for this Camino can currently be found? The site @jungleboy was using seems no longer to have them.

 

[jungleboy]

Does anyone know where GPS tracks for this Camino can currently be found? The site @jungleboy was using seems no longer to have them.

The website has changed a bit so that link is broken. But elsewhere there is a link to the official tracks on Wikiloc:

Camiño da Geira e dos Arrieiros (OFICIAL)

Ruta Camiño da Geira e dos Arrieiros (OFICIAL) de Senderismo en Santiago de Compostela, Galicia (España). Descarga el track GPS y sigue el recorrido del itinerario del sendero desde un mapa. Camiño de Santiago certificado polo Cabildo da Catedral e Oficina do Peregrino en marzo de...

es.wikiloc.com

 

[David Tallan]

Thanks!