KML to CSV Converter — Extract Coordinates from Google Earth

Getting your coordinates back out

Google Earth exports readily to KML but offers no way to get a plain table back, which is a problem the moment you need those positions in a report, a permission application or a survey deliverable. This tool reads the KML and hands you a spreadsheet.

What gets extracted

Every <Placemark> is read, whether it holds a single <Point> or a multi-vertex <LineString> or <LinearRing>. A single-point placemark keeps its name and description. A path or polygon contributes one row per vertex — deliberately unlabelled, since repeating the shape's name against every vertex would be misleading. Note that a polygon exported from this or any other tool repeats its first vertex at the end to close the ring, so an n-sided area yields n+1 rows.

KMZ works too

A KMZ is a zipped KML. Drop one and the archive is opened in your browser and the KML inside is read directly — no need to unzip it yourself first.

Nested folders and namespaces

Real KML from Google Earth, QGIS and survey software nests placemarks inside <Folder> elements and carries namespace declarations and extended data. The file is parsed with a real XML parser rather than pattern-matched, so that structure is handled rather than tripped over.

Going the other way? Start from coordinates to KML, or from a spreadsheet with CSV to KML.