• Markaos@lemmy.one
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    proprietary Google-only format

    Keyhole Markup Language

    KML became an international standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium in 2008.

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    The KML 2.2 specification was submitted to the Open Geospatial Consortium to assure its status as an open standard for all geobrowsers.

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      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.

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          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.