How to Export Google Maps Saved Places to Excel: Complete Guide
Turn your Google Maps saved places — or a list someone shared with you — into an Excel spreadsheet with names, addresses, and coordinates. Step-by-step, including how to open the CSV cleanly in Excel.
May 31, 2026
•5 min read
You've saved a few hundred places in Google Maps — restaurants to try, apartments to view, shops to visit — and now you want them in a spreadsheet. Somewhere you can sort by neighborhood, add a "visited?" column, flag your favorites, and share the whole thing with a friend or your team. Excel is the natural home for that. Google Maps just doesn't have a button for it.
This guide covers the reliable way to get your places into Excel — whether they're your own saved places or a list someone shared with you — with the coordinates intact, plus how to open the file cleanly so your columns line up.
Why There's No "Export to Excel" in Google Maps
Google Maps lets you save and organize places, but it has no native export to Excel, CSV, or any spreadsheet format. The closest official route is Google Takeout, which exports your saved places — but as a file full of Google Maps URLs, not a tidy table with addresses and coordinates. That's a starting point, not a spreadsheet.
So the job is really two steps: get the places out, then turn them into clean tabular data with coordinates. Here's the short path.
The Fast Way: Download as Excel
Takeout Tools exports a real Excel workbook in one click:
- Add your places one of two ways:
- Paste a shared list link — if you have a
maps.app.goo.gl/...link (yours or one someone sent you), drop it in. - Upload a Google Takeout export — for your own saved places, export "Saved" from Google Takeout and upload it.
- Paste a shared list link — if you have a
- Your places appear in a sortable table with name, address, latitude, longitude, and notes.
- Click Export → Excel (.xlsx).
You get a genuine .xlsx — coordinates as numbers, a clickable Google Maps link on every row, and a frozen, filter-ready header — that opens with a double-click, no import wizard. Prefer a universal file for another tool or a script? Export → CSV is right there too. For the full breakdown, see Google Maps to Excel.
What's in the Spreadsheet
| Column | Example |
|---|---|
| Name | Scratch Baking Co |
| Address | 416 Preble St, South Portland, ME 04106 |
| Latitude | 43.6393962 |
| Longitude | -70.2306564 |
| Note | The author's note, if it came from a shared list |
From there you can add your own columns — priority, price, "who recommended it" — and make it yours.
If You Exported CSV Instead
The .xlsx download above skips all of this — but if you grabbed a CSV (say, to import elsewhere) and want it in Excel:
- Just double-click the CSV and it opens. For most lists that's all you need.
- For full control, open Excel first and use Data → From Text/CSV, then follow the import wizard. This is the best option if a place name contains a comma, so everything lands in the right column.
- Don't rename the file to
.xlsx. A CSV renamed to.xlsxisn't a real Excel file — Excel will warn you. Either open it as a CSV, or just use the native Excel (.xlsx) export instead.
Why a Spreadsheet Beats the Map View
Once your places are in Excel, you can do things Google Maps never let you:
- Sort and filter — by area, by rating, by whether you've been
- De-duplicate — spot the same place saved twice
- Annotate — add notes, tags, a checklist
- Share — send the sheet to anyone, no app required
- Analyze or map elsewhere — the latitude/longitude columns are ready for any mapping or GIS tool