Export Google Maps Prospect Lists to CSV and GPX for Field Sales

The prospect list problem

Field reps use Google Maps the same way everyone does — it's fast, visual, and already open on their phone. Dropping a pin on a prospect, saving a cluster of accounts to visit on Thursday, building a list for a new territory. The data accumulates naturally.

The problem is it doesn't go anywhere. You can't push a saved-places list into Salesforce. You can't feed it into Route4Me or OptimoRoute. You can't hand it to a territory manager as a structured dataset. The work that went into building those lists is effectively stuck until someone manually copies it out.

What field operations actually need

Territory data becomes operationally useful when it reaches the tools that drive execution:

• CRM import — Salesforce, HubSpot, and most CRMs accept a CSV with company name, address, and coordinates. That's enough to create or enrich account records and associate them with a rep and territory.
• Route optimisation — Tools like Route4Me, OptimoRoute, and Routific accept stop lists as CSV or GPX. A clean export from your saved places gives you a starting point for any route-planning session.
• Territory maps — GeoJSON and KML let territory managers visualise account density, identify coverage gaps, and present territory splits to leadership without building anything custom.

The Takeout Tools workflow

Google Takeout includes your saved places — but no coordinates. You get names and categories, not the spatial data that route planners and GIS tools need.

Takeout Tools adds the geocoding step. Upload your Takeout export, and it recovers coordinates for each saved place via the name and address. From there you export in whatever format the next tool expects.

Which format fits which step

CSV

The right format for CRM import and route-planning tools. Most CRMs accept a simple CSV with name, address, latitude, and longitude. Route-planning tools like OptimoRoute and Routific accept the same. Export CSV first — convert to other formats from there using the free converters.

GPX

Use this when the next step is a GPS device or navigation app. Garmin devices, OsmAnd, and Gaia GPS all import GPX waypoints natively. Useful for reps doing back-road field visits where they want turn-by-turn guidance to each stop. You can also convert GPX to CSV if you need to bring it back into a spreadsheet.

GeoJSON

Use this for territory mapping and analysis. Load into QGIS, Felt, or Kepler.gl to visualise account density, draw territory boundaries, or produce a shareable map for planning meetings. Convert KML to GeoJSON if you're working from an existing file.

Convert between formats

Already have a geo file and need it in a different format? Use the free online converters:

• GPX to CSV, GPX to KML, GPX to GeoJSON
• KML to CSV, KML to GPX, KML to GeoJSON
• GeoJSON to CSV, GeoJSON to GPX, GeoJSON to KML

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