Quote from: "berkley"Why don't you use built in Locus support for MyMaps? Does all the same but much easyer. And you can import your MyMaps for offline access. All within Locus. No need to do something with Google Earth and/or Google Maps!
Displaying a map from My Maps works great, but I couldn't see how to save those points to a category for offline use.
So, I just clicked the "KML" link next to the name of the "My Map" that I wanted to download. I looked at the URL, and it had the text "output=kml" already, so it's possible the Google defaults have changed in our favor. I plowed ahead making no changes to the URL text. The save file dialog said it was going to be a 1.4 kb file, and that made me concerned it would just be the URL that was saved. Then to my surprise the resulting file it saved was 7.9 kb (20 points in the map) - so far so good! I opened it up, and sure enough, it was an XML file with coordinate fields (most importantly) and others. I moved the file to my phone, went into Locus and tried the import function. SUCCESS! It prompted me for a category and showed the tally climbing from 1 to 20 points as it loaded.
If there is a way to do this all internally within Locus, I'd love to hear about it, but at a minimum, the save file, transfer and import approach works perfectly.