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title: "Import Google Maps lists"
description: "Move your saved Google Maps lists into Savepad through Google Takeout, with every place pinned on a map and your notes kept."
source: https://savepad.app/docs/import-google-maps-lists
---
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Import and export

# Import Google Maps lists

Move your saved Google Maps lists into Savepad through Google Takeout, with every place pinned on a map and your notes kept.

Years of “Want to go” pins in Google Maps? Bring them over. Each list becomes a folder, each place a pin on a map, with your notes.

## Get your lists out of Google

Google doesn’t let anything read your saved lists directly, so they come out through Takeout.

1. Go to [Google Takeout](https://takeout.google.com).
2. Press **Deselect all**.
3. Scroll down and tick **Saved**. Just that one.
4. Press **Next step**, then **Create export**.

It’s small and usually ready in a few minutes. Google emails you a zip.

## Bring them in

1. In Savepad, go to **Settings > Import and export**.
2. Pick the space under **Into**, and choose the zip.
3. Savepad shows every list. Untick the ones you don’t want, and name each list’s folder.
4. Press **Import**.

![Google Maps lists from a Takeout zip in Savepad, each list with a folder name box, one renamed to United States / New York](https://savepad.app/shots/google-maps-lists-from-a-takeout-zip-in-savepad-1afd2d.png)

Every Google Maps list gets a folder. Rename them before they come in. The slash makes a folder inside a folder.

## Name the folders well

A slash makes a folder inside a folder: `Mexico / Mexico City`. And the **last part should be the town**, because that’s where Savepad looks for the places. “Nooyawrk” won’t find much. `United States / New York` will.

## How places get pinned

Takeout’s places have no coordinates in them, just a name. So Savepad looks each one up by its name, near the town in the folder’s name, on OpenStreetMap and in Overture Maps (which knows a lot more restaurants, bars, and shops). It takes about a second a place, so a list of 300 is a five-minute coffee.

Most places land on the map. The ones neither knows by that name save without a pin. Open one and use the search box to find it, or paste its coordinates. See [places and maps](https://savepad.app/docs/places-and-maps).

## On Free

Free keeps 150 saves, so a big Takeout wants Light.