Online Help > Placemarks > How to import and export placemarks?
The import and export placemarks support allows you to import placemarks (waypoints, tracks, routes, etc.) from various files created by external softwares, or export them for external use.
Due to the vast number of existing formats and important differences among them, the application will need to import them in its own optimized format before displaying or modifying them, this is the import process. In order to use them again in an external application, you'll need to export them in the desired format, this is the export process.
The complete list of file formats than can be imported or exported is available here.
To import placemarks from external files:
“Placemarks”
“Explore placemarks”
“My downloads”
“Browse”
“Display”
By default, the application will import files to the import folder and use the device charset. In order to choose something different:
“Import…”
“Folder”
“Elevations”
“None”
to ignore elevations from the file, “WGS84”
to import GPS (WGS84) elevations, or “EGM96”
to import geoid (EGM96) elevations);“Charset”
“Fix GPS week number rollout issues”
“Ok”
You can also import placemarks from any file manager:
To export a placemark in another format and use it in an external application:
“Export as…”
In the list of available export formats, choose the one that best fits the external application you want to use, for example “GPX file”
which offers a great compatibility, or
“KMZ file”
if you want to export some pictures within the file.
By default, pictures are exported in KMZ files with the original quality and size of your camera, which can result in very large exported files if you have a lot of pictures. You can reduce the images sizes by taping on
“Options”
, on
“Pictures (Size)”
and by choosing a reduced size format from SD to 4K (exact exported sizes will depends on the size ratios of your pictures).
Once the placemark has been exported, the full path of the exported file is displayed.
“Share”
“Open”
“Ok”
Be careful when trying to access the exported file from a computer using an USB cable, Android takes time to update the file list of your device, and newly created ones may not be immediately visible.
See here how to export multiple items at once.