You opened your Starred list on Google Maps Desktop, scrolled to the bottom, and the count stopped at 200. The badge above your account icon, though, says you've saved hundreds — or thousands. You're not imagining things. Desktop Maps caps the Starred list view at 200 places.
This guide walks through two workarounds: a quick reorganisation that fixes lists with a bit more than 200 entries, and a full Google Takeout flow that handles any size.
Why You Only See 200 Places
The 200-place limit is a known quirk of Google Maps Desktop — not a hard cap on what you can save. Behind the scenes your account holds every place you ever starred. The desktop list view just refuses to render past 200 entries.
The iPhone and Android Maps apps show the full list. If you open Maps on your phone and Starred shows 1,247 places while your laptop shows 200, you're hitting the same UI bug — not data loss.
We've seen this confirmed by users with 300+, 500+, and 2,000+ starred places. Every Google Maps app behaves the same way: mobile complete, desktop cut at 200.
Workaround 1: Move Excess Places to Other Lists
If you have *slightly* more than 200 (say, 210–250), the simplest fix is to split. Google Maps lets a single place sit in multiple lists at once, so moving them somewhere else doesn't lose the Starred badge.
- On mobile, open your Starred list.
- Pick a category that's overrepresented — restaurants, hotels, museums.
- For each, tap Save and add it to a custom list ("Restaurants", "Hotels", "Want to go"). Don't un-star — leave both.
- Once Starred has fewer than 200 entries, desktop shows them all.
- Open the ExportMyMap Chrome extension, pick the list, export.
You still keep the original star, you just *also* have it in a topic list. Useful for organisation either way.
This trick stops being practical past ~250–300 places. Beyond that, Takeout is the only path.
Workaround 2: Google Takeout (Any Number of Places)
Google Takeout is the official data-export tool. It bypasses every desktop UI limit and gives you the raw saved-places file directly.
The catch: Takeout returns a JSON with internal Google identifiers, not the enriched data you actually want (addresses, phone numbers, hours, websites, ratings). That's where the ExportMyMap Takeout import comes in — you upload the JSON, we enrich each place via the Google Places API, and you download proper export files.
Step 1: Open Google Takeout and select Maps (your places) {#step-1-select-maps-your-places}
Go to takeout.google.com and sign in with the Google account that owns the saved places.
The list of products is long. Click Deselect all at the top first — most categories are unrelated to Maps and add weight to your archive.
Scroll down to Maps (your places) and check that single box.
Maps (your places) — *Records of your starred places and place reviews.*
Do not check the separate "Maps" entry (without "your places") — that one contains your map contributions, edits, and timeline, not your saved places. The one you want says (your places).
Step 2: Click Next step {#step-2-next-step}
Make sure every other product is unchecked. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Next step.
Step 3: Choose "Export once" and create the export {#step-3-create-export}
On the next screen:
- Frequency: select Export once. The other option creates 6 exports over a year — unnecessary for a one-off pull.
- File type: leave as .zip. Easiest to open across operating systems.
- File size: 2 GB is fine. Saved-places exports are almost always under a megabyte.
Click Create export.
Step 4: Wait for Google {#step-4-wait-for-google}
Google now generates your archive. It usually takes a few minutes, but Google warns it can take hours or days. You can close this tab — an email will arrive when it's ready.
Step 5: Download the archive from the email link {#step-5-download-archive}
When Google's done you get an email titled *"Your Google data is ready to download"*. Click Manage Google Takeout request and download the ZIP.
The link is valid for 7 days. After that you'd need to re-trigger the export.
Step 6: Unzip and find Saved Places.json {#step-6-find-saved-places-json}
Unpack the archive. Inside you'll find a `Takeout/Maps (your places)/` folder, and inside that — `Saved Places.json`. That's the file we need.
The file is in GeoJSON format: one feature per saved place, with coordinates and a Google Maps URL. No phone numbers, addresses, or other detail — yet.
Step 7: Upload to ExportMyMap {#step-7-upload-to-exportmymap}
Open exportmymap.com/takeout-import. Drop the `Saved Places.json` file onto the page (or click to browse).
Enter the email tied to your ExportMyMap Annual subscription, then click Start enrichment. We'll enrich each place via the Google Places API (verified name, full address, phone, website, opening hours, ratings, plus code, country / city / state / postal code) and bundle the result into ten download files: JSON, CSV, Excel, GeoJSON, KML, GPX — plus raw Google responses for power users — plus a ZIP of everything.
The whole import takes a few minutes for several hundred places.
Why the Annual Subscription?
The Takeout import endpoint is gated by the Annual plan. It uses paid Google Places API enrichment calls (one per place), so the cost is non-trivial — and the Annual subscription is what funds it.
One import per subscription year, up to 5,000 places. That covers basically every Maps user.
If your list is closer to 200 places, the Chrome extension is the simpler tool — instant, no upload, no plan gate. Install it from the Chrome Web Store.
Quick Recap
- Desktop Google Maps caps the Starred list at 200 places. Mobile shows the full list — it's a desktop UI bug, not data loss.
- Slightly over 200: move some places to custom lists (places can live in multiple lists at once), then use the Chrome extension.
- Hundreds to thousands: Google Takeout → upload `Saved Places.json` to /takeout-import (Annual plan).
If something doesn't go to plan — Google Takeout taking days, weird characters in your JSON, the upload bouncing — drop a line via the support email on the site. We see every report.