How many places can I extract at once?

You can extract up to 2,000 places per list; larger lists are imported up to 2,000 with a notice, so use a Takeout export for bigger lists. A list of several hundred places comes back in one go.

Does it work on a list I didn't create?

Yes. As long as the list is shared with a public link, you can paste it and extract every place (up to 2,000 per list), regardless of who owns it. The full breakdown is in how to export a Google Maps list someone shared with you.

Do I keep the author's notes?

Yes. Each place keeps the note the list author wrote for it, the little "best for a rainy day" or "get the tasting menu" annotations, which a Google Takeout export cannot give you for a list you do not own.

I only need the coordinates

If you just want latitude and longitude for each place rather than a full export, see how to get coordinates from a shared Google Maps list.

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How to Extract All Places from a Google Maps List

Found a great Google Maps list with dozens or hundreds of places? Paste the link and pull out every one with its name, address, coordinates and notes, then export to CSV, GPX, KML, or GeoJSON.

May 31, 2026

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Last checked October 18, 2026

Have a Google Maps list link? Get your places now

Open your list in Google Maps, tap Share, copy the link, and paste it here — no Takeout export needed.

Someone's built the perfect Google Maps list, 80 ramen spots across Tokyo, every brewery in the Northeast, a 200-stop road-trip itinerary, and you want all of it as usable data, not a wall of pins you have to click through one by one.

The problem is that Google Maps is great at showing a list and useless at giving it to you. You can scroll the places, but there's no way to select them all, no download button, and Google Takeout only covers lists tied to your own account. Here's how to pull every place (up to 2,000 per list) out of a shared list in one step.

The short answer: copy the list's share link, paste it into Takeout Tools, and every place comes back with its name, address, coordinates and note, ready to export.

The One-Step Method

If the list has a public share link, you can extract the whole thing at once.

In Google Maps, open the list, tap Share, and copy the link (or use the maps.app.goo.gl/... link you already have).
Open Takeout Tools and paste the link into the paste a shared list box.
Hit Generate. Every place in the list, up to 2,000, lands in a table.

It doesn't matter whether the list has 12 places or 800: they all come back together, with coordinates already attached.

What Gets Extracted

Each place comes through with everything the list holds:

Field	What it is
Name	The place name, exactly as it appears in the list
Address	Full street address where one exists
Latitude / Longitude	Precise point coordinates for the pin
Note	The list author's note for that place, preserved
Google Maps link	A link that opens the place's pin in Google Maps

That last column matters: because each row opens the place's pin on Google Maps, you can always check a place on the map, handy when a list has two places with the same name.

Choose What to Export

Once the list is in the table, you don't have to keep all of it. Deselect any rows you don't want before exporting, so a sprawling 300-place list becomes exactly the subset you need.

Then Export Anywhere

Extracted places aren't locked in. Export the list to whatever you actually use:

Excel (.xlsx) or CSV for spreadsheets, analysis, or importing elsewhere. See Google Maps to Excel and Google Sheets.
GPX for Garmin devices and offline navigation. See Google Maps to GPX.
KML for Google Earth and My Maps. If your places live in a My Maps map instead of a list, see Google My Maps to GPX.
GeoJSON for web maps and GIS tools like QGIS.

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