If you have ever tried to send your Starred Places to someone, you probably noticed that the usual Share button simply is not there. It is not hidden in another menu. Google lets you share custom lists, but Starred Places is the exception. The limitation is confirmed on Google's own help page.
For many people, Starred is the list they have been filling for years: restaurants, hotels, viewpoints, client addresses, and assorted places that did not fit anywhere else. Re-saving all of them to a new list just to share it is not a very appealing afternoon.
A practical workaround
ExportMyMap can take the Starred Places currently visible in your signed-in Google Maps session and put the ones you select on a separate web page. You send that page as a normal link. The other person does not need the extension or access to your Google account.
- Install ExportMyMap.
- Open Google Maps on a desktop Chromium browser and make sure you are signed in to the correct account.
- Click the ExportMyMap icon and choose Starred Places.
- Select the places you actually want to send.
- Choose Share Link, enter a useful title, and copy the generated URL.
Think of the result as a snapshot, not a live connection to your Maps account. It contains the places you selected, but not your other lists or search history. Anyone with the URL can open it, so it is worth checking for Home, Work, or other private addresses before you copy the link.
Why the normal Google Maps Share button is missing
Starred Places is one of the built-in Google lists. Custom lists have visibility and collaboration controls; Starred does not. There is also no command to copy the whole thing into a new custom list.
You can, of course, create a new list and save the places there again. That works perfectly well for five or ten locations. With a few hundred, it quickly becomes tedious.
If the source is already a custom list that another person sent you, do not copy it place by place. Open or follow it, then use the separate guide to export a shared Google Maps list.
What if Starred contains more than 200 places?
There is one wrinkle with large collections: Google Maps on desktop may show only about 200 Starred entries even when the mobile app shows more. ExportMyMap displays a warning when it encounters that limit, because a partial list should not be mistaken for a complete backup.
If you need every entry, start with the Google Takeout workflow. Takeout is slower, but it is the better route for recovering the full archive. The extension is more convenient when you want to share the places that Maps currently makes available.
A link is not always the best format
- Choose PDF for an offline guide or an email attachment.
- Choose CSV or Excel if the recipient wants to sort, filter, or edit the list.
- Choose KML or GPX when the places are going into another mapping or navigation app.
- Use a custom Google Maps list if several people need to keep editing the list inside Maps. You will still have to save the places to that list first.
Before sending anything, give the selection one last look. Personal addresses and private notes are easy to overlook in a list you have not cleaned up for years. A share link is intentionally easy to open, so treat it like any other document shared by link.
Google Maps itself cannot share Starred Places as a list. Creating a separate page from the places you choose is a straightforward way around that limitation, and it avoids copying hundreds of individual Maps URLs.
