The Best Ways to Export Google Maps Saved Places
You have saved places in Google Maps and you want them out as a file you can actually use. These are the options that genuinely work, and the honest trade-offs of each.
You collected places in Google Maps over weeks of research, and now you want them somewhere useful: a spreadsheet, a GPS file, or a custom map. Google does not give you a single tidy "export" button that does all of that, so here are the real options and where each one helps.
Google Takeout (Google's own export)
Google Takeout is the official way to download your own data. It is free, it covers your whole account, and it is the most complete record of what you saved.
The honest limit: it gives you names and addresses, not coordinates, and the files come as raw JSON and CSV that take work before they are usable. If you only need the list, it is the right start. If you need coordinates, you still have a geocoding step ahead of you.
Google My Maps
Google My Maps lets you import a file and view places on a custom, shareable map. It is free and it is good for a visual map you can hand to someone.
The honest limit: it is a viewer and editor, not an exporter of your existing saved places. You have to get your places into a file first before My Maps is any use.
Doing it by hand
You can open a list and copy each place into a spreadsheet yourself. For five or ten places that is fine.
The honest limit: it does not scale, you still have no coordinates, and it is easy to make mistakes once the list runs long.
Takeout Tools
Takeout Tools takes either a Google Takeout export or a public shared-list link, geocodes each place to recover latitude and longitude, and exports a clean spreadsheet (.xlsx or CSV), GPX, KML, or GeoJSON.
The honest limits, stated plainly: geocoding is best-effort, so accuracy is high for places with clear names and addresses and lower for vague or duplicate names. We are not affiliated with Google. The free tier covers small lists, and larger volumes need the paid tier. We do not add data we cannot stand behind.
Which should you pick?
- You only want the raw record: Google Takeout.
- You want a shareable visual map: get a file first, then Google My Maps.
- You want a clean spreadsheet or GPS file with coordinates, including from a shared list: Takeout Tools.
If your end goal is a usable table or a file for a GPS app, the geocoding step is the part that takes the time, so a tool that does it for you is usually worth it.
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