Recently, we announced the availability of CartoDB on Google Cloud Platform. Our intention is to provide a great resource for those projects making use of the Google Maps API and help former Google Maps Engine customers continue their projects into the future.
Today we are presenting a tool to help the migration from Google Maps Engine to CartoDB. This online tool will let you choose your datasources from GME and move them to your CartoDB account.
It is a fairly easy process with just 4 steps
- Go to http://gme2cartodb.com
- Authenticate with your Google credentials.
- Select the Datasources you want to migrate.
- Insert your CartoDB username and API key.
- Let the tool do the rest of the work.
Some important considerations to take into account
- The tool will only migrate vector datasources.
- It will re-import the files you uploaded to CartoDB. If you have programmatically modified some data through the GME APIs this tool will not take them into consideration.
- It will also not acknowledge if you have modified the data using the GME User Interface.
- The tool will not recreate the Maps you created on GME, you will have to login into CartoDB and recreate them using the CartoDB editor.
If you have modified your data inside GME, we recommend you using FME tool. It has support for CartoDB and it will allow you to do transformations on the data on the migrations process.
Check out this video.
There is also the option to use ogr2ogr, the Open Source tool to do the migration. Expect an update on that soon.
What to do with Imagery data?
If you have imagery loaded on GME there is also another tool we have in the works to let you migrate it to CartoDB. Contact us for an early demo.
We hope this tool will help users of both platforms to easily migrate their existing projects. Remember you can always contact us to help you on your migration project.
We would like to thank our partners BigMapping for the help on creating the tool. You guys rock!
Have a nice data migration day!