How to Extract All Places from a Google Maps List
Found a great Google Maps list with dozens or hundreds of places? Paste the link and pull out every one — names, addresses, coordinates, and notes — then export to CSV, GPX, KML, or GeoJSON.
May 31, 2026
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Someone's built the perfect Google Maps list — 80 ramen spots across Tokyo, every brewery in the Northeast, a 200-stop road-trip itinerary — and you want all of it as usable data, not a wall of pins you have to click through one by one.
The problem is that Google Maps is great at showing a list and useless at giving it to you. You can scroll the places, but there's no way to select them all, no download button, and Google Takeout only covers lists tied to your own account. Here's how to pull every place out of a shared list in one step.
The One-Step Method
If the list has a public share link, you can extract the whole thing at once.
- In Google Maps, open the list, tap Share, and copy the link (or use the
maps.app.goo.gl/...link you already have). - Open Takeout Tools, switch to Paste a shared list, and paste the link.
- Hit Generate. Every place in the list lands in a table.
It doesn't matter whether the list has 12 places or 800 — they all come back together, with coordinates already attached.
What Gets Extracted
Each place comes through with everything the list holds:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Name | The place name, exactly as it appears in the list |
| Address | Full street address where one exists |
| Latitude / Longitude | Precise point coordinates for the pin |
| Note | The list author's note for that place, preserved |
| Google Maps link | A direct link back to the exact place |
That last column matters: because each row links straight to the right place on Google Maps, you can always jump back to the source — handy when a list has two places with the same name.
Filter Before You Export
Once the list is in the table, you don't have to keep all of it. You can:
- Sort and search by name, address, or note.
- Filter to just the places that have notes, or just the ones in a particular area.
- Deselect anything you don't want before exporting.
This turns a sprawling 300-place list into exactly the subset you need — say, only the spots the author flagged as favorites.
Then Export Anywhere
Extracted places aren't locked in. Export the list to whatever you actually use:
- CSV for spreadsheets, analysis, or importing elsewhere.
- GPX for Garmin devices and offline navigation — see Google Maps to GPX.
- KML for Google Earth and My Maps.
- GeoJSON for web maps and GIS tools like QGIS.
Frequently Asked Questions
Free Tools
- CSV to KML Converter - Turn a CSV of places into KML
- KML to GPX Converter - Convert KML to GPX for navigation apps
- GPX Validator - Check your GPX file before importing