Google Maps to SPOTIO: Prepare a Clean CSV Before You Import

Move Google Maps prospect research into SPOTIO with a clean, geocoded CSV. Prepare names, addresses, coordinates, territories, and notes before import.

June 26, 2026

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4 min read

SPOTIO is useful once your field team has a clean account list to work from. The awkward part comes before that: a lot of territory research starts in Google Maps, not in SPOTIO. Reps save prospects while they are out in the field. Managers build shared lists for a new patch. Someone has a useful Google Maps list, but not a structured account table.

This guide is about the handoff. Takeout Tools does not replace SPOTIO. It prepares the list so SPOTIO can do the field-sales work: mapping, routing, activity, and rep execution.

Why a raw Google Maps export is not enough

Google Takeout can export your saved places, but the raw file is not a ready SPOTIO import. It is usually missing the structure sales ops needs:

clear address columns
latitude and longitude
territory or owner fields
priority or account status
a consistent row per prospect

That leaves someone copying details from Google Maps into a spreadsheet, then cleaning the spreadsheet before SPOTIO ever sees it. For a few stops, that is annoying. For a territory list, it becomes a time sink.

The clean path: Google Maps to CSV to SPOTIO

The safer workflow is to turn Google Maps research into a proper CSV first.

Export your saved places from Google Takeout, or start from a shared Google Maps list if the research came from someone else.
Upload the file or list to Takeout Tools.
Export CSV with place names, addresses, list names, notes, and coordinates.
Add SPOTIO-specific columns in the spreadsheet: owner, territory, priority, status, and any tags your team uses.
Import the cleaned CSV into SPOTIO as accounts or leads, depending on your setup.

The important part is that SPOTIO receives a clean table, not a loose set of map links.

Columns to prepare before import

Start with the export from Takeout Tools, then add the fields your field team needs to operate.

Keep the location fields

Keep place name, address, latitude, and longitude. SPOTIO and other field-sales tools need reliable location data to put accounts on the map. Coordinates are especially useful when addresses are messy, rural, incomplete, or formatted differently across sources.

Preserve the source list

If your Google Maps lists mean something, keep that meaning. A list called "North patch prospects" or "Free-trade pubs" is operational context. Keep it as a source list, territory, segment, or tag column so the reason a place was saved does not disappear.

Add owner and next action

Before import, add the fields that decide what happens next: rep owner, territory, priority, status, and next action. A clean location table gets the data into SPOTIO; these fields make it useful to the team.

What this workflow does not do

Takeout Tools does not enrich buyer contacts, create SPOTIO activities, assign territories inside SPOTIO, or optimise a route. It gets the source data out of Google Maps and into a structured CSV. SPOTIO then handles the sales execution layer.

That distinction matters. The job is not to replace the tool your reps use in the field. The job is to stop the account list from entering that tool as messy, manually copied data.

A quick QA pass before import

Open the CSV before you upload it. Sort by latitude and longitude to spot obvious outliers. Remove duplicates. Check rows with vague names like "Dropped pin" or "Saved place". Add territory and owner columns while the data is still easy to edit.

This ten-minute pass saves a lot of cleanup after import, especially if the list will be used by several reps.