This is a utility to generate personal portal maps for an Ingress agent.
This is done by reading that agent’s data dump from Niantic and correlating it with lists of known portals. These personal maps may include combinations of captured portals, visited (but not yet captured) portals, and unvisited portals.
An agent may use it to do things like:
- Determine where in their hometown* they still have unvisited and/or uncaptured unique portals;
- Get driving directions and do other planning for ops (conveniently rendered in mobile offline apps);
- Look at all the places in the world that they’ve played (cool for reminiscing).
* Currently supported locations (i.e.: “lists of known portals”) on
this server include:
[Calgary, Red Deer, Kelowna]
First, you need to get your personal data dump from Niantic. There’s no automatic process for doing this; what you will need to do is send them an email at privacyⓐnianticlabs.com requesting your data. The email can be really simple; here’s a screenshot of an example.
[Important!] Once you have sent the email, make sure you receive a response back from Niantic stating that the “request has been transferred to the appropriate team for processing” (or words to that effect); this confirms that your request is in the system. After receiving this response, it will take about 3-4 weeks for them to process the request and give you your data.
Finally, you should receive a second email with a link to your file. Download the link and use the provided password to unzip it. Inside will be a couple dozen files; one of which is called game_log.tsv. Return to this page, and use the form above to upload that file*. You will then be presented with a set of options to customize, preview and download your personal maps in KML format.
* Note this will involve you uploading your personal log to this server. Will I have the ability to look at it? Technically yes, since it’s my server. I promise that I won’t ever do that without your explicit permission; it’s up to you to believe me or not. Unfortunately there’s no easy way around this requirement, short of you downloading the code and running it yourself on your own computer. If you’re technically proficient and interested in doing that, I’ve made the code available (see question below).
- On desktop:
Install Google Earth to view your personal portal maps.
(click to see full-size) - On mobile:
Install maps.me to view your personal portal maps (import as bookmarks).
(click to see full-size) - On IITC:
Install the “overlay kml” IITC plugin to add your personal portal maps.
(click to see full-size) - On your GPS unit:
Refer to your GPS unit’s documentation to see if and how it can import KML.
If your GPS doesn’t mention KML anywhere, you can use GPS Visualizer to convert the KML into a format that your GPS may be able to use. - Other options:
Almost any GIS program will open KML files (although if you’re familiar with GIS you probably already know that).
See also the following pages for an idea of other software that can read KML:
[fileinfo.com page]
[askubuntu.com discussion]
You bet! It’s available in a git repository at BitBucket (requires Python 3, and optionally PHP 5, to run).
Yep! Here are the city maps currently available on this server:
The author of this utility is Sean Nichols, known in-game as @sirputter. You can also reach me at seanniⓐtrichotomy.ca.
The rest of the not-very-exciting content on my server is here.