![]() ![]() If the data you are working with is primarily custom regions that are color code based on some metric then take a look at the new custom regions feature in Excel Power Maps. If you try importing a collection that is bigger than this, it will only import the first 200 shapes. One caveat is that the My Places functionality limits the size of collections to 200 shapes. Screenshot: My Map data imported into My Places on Bing Maps You can add or edit the data using the tools available on the editor panel or by selecting any of the shapes. Select your collection to see it loaded on the map. Once you have imported your data you will see the title of the collection listed in the editor panel. This will open up a dialog where you can browse for a file to import and then either merge that data with an existing data collection or create a new one. Screenshot: My Places feature on Bing Maps (If you don’t have a Microsoft account, you can link any existing email address as your Microsoft account.) Once signed in, select the “My Places” button in the left side panel, which will open an editor panel over the map and load any data collections you have created previously. To get started go to and sign in using your Microsoft account. The “My Places” feature makes it easy to import data from common spatial file formats such as KML, GeoRSS, and GPX. ![]() Import data to “My Places” on Bing Mapsīing Maps has had a “My Places” feature, which is very similar to Google’s “My Maps” feature, since it first came online in 2005. Save the KML file somewhere on your computer where you can easily find it. Screenshot: Exporting a My Map layer as a KML file. From the options menu select the Download Classic My Map data or Export to KML option. ![]() Select the options button (three vertical dots) beside the Share button. When the page has loaded, you will see a panel that contains a list of the shapes in your map. This will take you to another page where you can export the data as a KML file. Select the map layer you want to work with. Screenshot: List of user created “My Map” layers. This will load a list of all the maps you have created. On the left side panel you will see a Maps tab, select this. Note that Google is currently giving users until June 1 st, 2015 to download their data. To get started, you can find your “My Map” data on Google here. Getting your data out of Google “My Places” In this blog post, we show available solutions in Bing Maps. Many users have asked about migrating their data to Bing Maps from Google Maps, after recent changes to the Google “My Map” feature. ![]()
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