[R-sig-Geo] Importing layers from Google My Maps

[Mathias Moser]

If your maps have their sharing links active you can just use download.file() by
adapting the sharing link like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/kml?mid=__MAPID__

If your maps are not public this will require authentication first (e.g.,
through RCurl:
https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/using_cURL#authenticating ).

HTH, //m

On Fri, 2021-02-12 at 15:10 +0100, Thierry Onkelinx via R-sig-Geo wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Can I import the layers from a Google My Maps based on it's link? I know I
> can go to the link, export the layers as KML and import that in R using
> rgdal. But that is tedious when you have a lot of links.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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