Google Takeout vs Takeout Tools
You can get your Google Maps saved places out with Google's own Takeout, or with Takeout Tools. They do different jobs, so here is the honest split.
Both can get your saved places out of Google Maps, but they sit at different points in the same job. The short version: Google Takeout downloads your data, and Takeout Tools makes it usable.
What Google Takeout does
Google Takeout is Google's official export. You request an archive of your account and Google sends you your saved places as files, for free, covering everything you own.
What it does well: it is complete, official, and costs nothing.
Where it stops: the export has no coordinates, only names and addresses, and the files are raw JSON and CSV. It also only covers your own account, so a list a friend shared with you is out of scope.
What Takeout Tools does
Takeout Tools picks up where Takeout leaves off. You upload your Takeout export, or paste a public shared-list link, and it geocodes each place to recover coordinates, then exports a clean spreadsheet (.xlsx or CSV), GPX, KML, or GeoJSON.
What it does well: coordinates recovered, a tidy file you can open or import straight away, and it reads public shared lists that Takeout cannot.
Where it stops, stated plainly: geocoding is best-effort, so accuracy is high for clearly named places and lower for vague ones. We are not Google and not affiliated with it. The free tier covers small lists, and larger volumes need the paid tier.
Use them together
For your own places the two work as a pair: export with Google Takeout, then turn that file into something usable with Takeout Tools. For a shared list, skip Takeout and paste the link into Takeout Tools directly.
If all you want is the raw record, Google Takeout on its own is enough. If you want a spreadsheet or a GPS file with coordinates, the second step is where the value is.
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