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How to Get Coordinates from a Shared Google Maps List

Need the latitude and longitude for every place in a shared Google Maps list? Paste the link and get clean lat/lng for all of them at once — here's how, plus the manual method for one-off places.

May 31, 2026

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You've got a shared Google Maps list — a maps.app.goo.gl/... link to someone's curated picks — and you need the actual coordinates. Not the place names, not a screenshot: real latitude and longitude for every pin, so you can drop them into a spreadsheet, plot them on your own map, load them onto a GPS device, or feed them into a script.

Google Maps shows you the places but never hands you the numbers. Reading coordinates off the map one pin at a time is slow and error-prone, and there's no "copy all coordinates" button anywhere in the interface. Here's the fast way to get clean lat/lng for the whole list, plus a manual method for when you only need one or two.

The Quick Way: Paste the Link

If the list has a shareable link, you can get coordinates for every place in about ten seconds.

  1. In Google Maps, open the list and tap Share → Copy link (or use the maps.app.goo.gl/... link you were sent).
  2. Open Takeout Tools, choose Paste a shared list, and drop the link in.
  3. Hit Generate.

Every place comes back with its coordinates already filled in — no geocoding step, no "couldn't find this address" gaps. You get a clean table you can sort, filter, and export.

What You Get

For each place in the list:

FieldExample
NameTwelve Percent Beer Project
Address341 State St, North Haven, CT 06473
Latitude41.3702238
Longitude-72.8833791
Google Maps linkA link back to the exact place

The latitude/longitude are precise point coordinates for each place — the same ones Google uses to drop the pin — so they line up exactly when you plot them elsewhere. Decimal degrees (WGS-84), which is what virtually every mapping tool, GPS unit, and spreadsheet expects.

Getting Coordinates for a Single Place by Hand

If you only need one or two, you don't need anything special:

  1. Open the place in Google Maps.
  2. On desktop: right-click the pin and the first row of the menu is the latitude and longitude — click it to copy.
  3. On mobile: tap and hold on the pin to drop a marker; the coordinates appear in the search bar at the top.

This is perfect for grabbing a single café's location. For a whole list, though, repeating it 40 times invites typos — which is exactly what the paste-the-link method avoids.

From Coordinates to a File

Coordinates in a table are useful, but you'll usually want them in a specific format:

  • CSV / spreadsheet — for analysis, mail merge, or importing into another tool. Columns for name, address, latitude, longitude, and the original note.
  • GPX — for Garmin units and offline navigation apps. See Google Maps to GPX.
  • KML — for Google Earth and My Maps. The CSV to KML converter handles this if you already have a CSV.
  • GeoJSON — for web maps and GIS tools like QGIS.

Takeout Tools exports all four directly from the extracted list, so you go from a shared link to a ready-to-use file without touching a spreadsheet formula.

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