Google Maps is where you save places. It is not where you organize them. Once your spots are in Ikuzo you can sort them by icon, status and season, filter hundreds of them in one click, and keep your notes and photos next to each one.
Ask Google for your places
Open Google Takeout, deselect everything, then select Saved and Maps (your places). Google prepares an archive and emails you when it is ready.
Turn the archive into a clean file
Google's archive is not usable as it is. Drop it into Export GM, which reads it and gives you back a JSON file with every place, its name and its coordinates. A new Export GM account starts with 1,000 free credits, one per place in your file, which covers most people in a single go.
Drop the file into Ikuzo
In the editor, open the menu and choose Import / Export, then drop your JSON file. Your places land on the map straight away, and you can give them all a status while importing.
What changes once they are in
A saved place in Google Maps is a grey pin with a name. In Ikuzo the same place gets an icon, a status (want to go, been there), a season, tags, your own notes and your photos. With a few hundred spots on one map, the filters are what make it usable, and that is exactly where Ikuzo was built to be better.
Ikuzo also imports KML files and its own Ikuzo JSON format, so you can move maps between accounts or bring spots from another tool.
