How do I open my Google Maps route in Adobe Illustrator?
In Google Maps, you have the “My maps” link. If you are logged in with your Google Account, this is the place where you can save your driving directions, or locations or routes you can create on Google maps.
For a project I was doing, I needed to export a route I had drawn in Google Maps to a path I could use in Illustrator. This is how I did it:
- Create your route in Google Maps.
- Save it in “My Maps”.
- Click on the “View in Google Earth” link (in the blue bar above the map right).
- You can now download your route as a .kml file.
- Surf to app.indiemapper.com
- Click on the “LAUNCH Indieprojector” button.
- Now open the downloaded .kml file.
- After successfully opening the .kml file, click on the “export” button (top right).
- Save the .svg file.
- Open the saved .svg file in Illustrator.
- Done!
Link: projector.indiemapper.com
Status: Tested it, works.
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Hi! thnx for this…I did everything you suggested but when I open the .svg file in Illustrator 10 there is no art work!
Any ideas why this may be happening?
Thanks a ton!
H.bhulu
hulubhulu
February 14, 2011 at 6:52 am
Sorry but something doesn’t work. I created my rout, works great in google earth, but when I try to import it
to app.indiemapper.com, all I have is my location point, no map, no route, no nothing. Just one dot. I tried multiple times with different locations, all produce same result.
Monika
September 19, 2011 at 11:54 am
site moved to
You can access the indiemapper application at: http://app.indiemapper.com
tim
September 15, 2011 at 11:55 pm