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It's a bit hard, but a workaround that seems to do the trick:
Go to Google Maps - My places: http://maps.google.at/maps/myplaces
CREATE NEW MAP, name its title "Starred Items to export", set it to [x] Unlisted, Done
Click on My places again to get back to the places list, select Starred
For each starred item do the following:
Click on the starred item, ...
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Transport for London (TfL) has developed a website called Get Ahead Of The Games which has information on temporary road changes in London as well as predicted impact on roads in London according game events and venues. While Google Maps and 'social driving direction' apps such as Waze can give you current information, the TfL Get Ahead website can give you ...
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If you try this Google Maps link, I've configured it to show traffic congestion live in London. It updates every few minutes, it appears, and from reports from my friends on the ground, seems fairly accurate. If you're using Google Maps on your phone, the latest car navigating option in Google Maps apparently takes this into account and can re-route you ...
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Well, after discovering that the starred locations are also mirrored on Google Bookmarks, I wrote a Python script to scrape the coordinates and generate a KML file:
Export Google Maps starred locations
Go to Google Bookmarks: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
On the bottom left, click "Export bookmarks": ...
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It's very straightforward. Just use the following link, obviously changing the latitude and longitude for yours. The z is the zoom index, you can play with it to get where you want.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=35.028028,-106.536655&z=13
I got this information by clicking on the "Link" button in the right hand corner above a map. ...
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Easiest process was to go to Google Bookmarks, copy each of the starred items, and paste it to a note or Word doc. Log out of the Google account and log into the new Google account. Go to Google Maps. Paste each link from your doc into Google maps one by one and star each item as you go. Took me 5 minutes to do the 20 or so that I had. Very easy.
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See this thread on plotting map points from excel entries. This should allow you to take addresses from a file (eg spreadsheet) and plot them on a map.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/baw9A5LuS3o
http://batchgeo.com/ is an example from this list, it allows you to paste address-related cells to plot.
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You can export the route in Bing Maps as a KML file & import that KML file into Google Maps.
In Bing Maps, add the selected location to a Collection. The "Add to collection" link appears below any location you choose.
From the Collection menu on the right, click on "Open your collections" to view the Collections Editor which has an Actions dropdown. ...
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Well I did try all kinds of searches before asking here and came up with nothing.
But I kept trying more searches after asking and I think I found exactly what I wanted, in fact the second kind I asked for:
batchgeo
Here's their input screen:
And here's the map I made with it for an answer on another Stack Exchange site:
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You can create a custom map in Google Maps to accomplish this. You have the option of plotting points or using polygons to display map information.
How to create a custom Google map
Example: Custom Google Map using polygons
Updated response: Perhaps a feed from Google Docs would better suit your needs.
Creating dynamic client-side maps with Google ...
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You are looking at essentially a geoocation API. one is yahoo place finder here is the output from one of the examples:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ResultSet version="1.0">
<Error>0</Error>
<ErrorMessage>No error</ErrorMessage>
<Locale>us_US</Locale>
<Quality>87</Quality>
...
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Here's how I do it.
Install Google Maps Lab 's LatLng Marker for your Google Maps account
Search for a place & use Drop LatLng Marker to any location you want.
Click on the marker and copy the longtitude+latitude. (Here's a very good post on how to do this.)
Create the shared link by pasting the text as below
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To add a marker to a map, you can use the My Maps feature of Google Maps.
Follow the instructions in the link above to use My Maps. Add a marker for the location that you're interested in sharing, then click the Link button in the upper-right corner; that link can be used to bring someone directly to that location and will include the marker you placed ...
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