json2kml.py

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# Python script to convert Google Maps JSON file to a KML file
# Copyright (C) 2017 Dimitri Souza
# https://github.com/dmrsouza/json2kml
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 as published by
# the Free Software Foundation.
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import json
import simplekml
import sys
import codecs

inputFile = "Saved Places.json"
outputFile = "Saved Places.kml"

# JSON Encoding is UTF-8. Change stdout to UTF-8 to prevent encoding error
# when calling print titles inside the loop
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter("utf-8")(sys.stdout.detach())

print ('Opening file "'+inputFile+'"')

with open (inputFile) as jsonFile:
    data = json.load (jsonFile)
    
kml = simplekml.Kml ()
kml.document.name = outputFile

count = 0
for place in data["features"]:
    if place["type"] == "Feature":
        title = place["properties"]["Title"]
        print ('Parsing place "'+title+'"')
        
        placeLocation = place["properties"]["Location"]
        lon = place["geometry"]["coordinates"][0]
        lat = place["geometry"]["coordinates"][1]
        
        if "Address" in placeLocation:
            address = placeLocation ["Address"]
        else:
            address = "N/A"
        
        kml.newpoint (name=title, coords=[(lon,lat)], address=address)
        count += 1
        
print ('Saving file "'+outputFile+'"')
kml.save (outputFile)

print ('Done! Total of '+str(count)+' places saved to the KML file.')