Location QR code generator
A code that opens a map pin at your location. We catch a mistyped coordinate before it points at the ocean.
- Free to use
- No account needed
- Tested before you download
- Ready to print
Step 1
What should this code do?
Opens a map location
In Google Maps, right-click your spot and click the numbers to copy both.
The second of the two numbers.
Step 2 · Make it yours (optional. A plain code works great.)
Colour
Every one of these is dark enough to survive print. Pick one, or set your own below.
Codes with a label are scanned noticeably more often than bare ones.
A logo covers modules. We raise error correction to compensate and then decode the finished code to confirm it still reads.
Higher settings keep the code readable even if it gets scuffed or partly covered, but pack the dots tighter. Standard is right for almost everyone.
Step 3
We’ll tell you exactly how big to print it so it scans easily from that distance.
Common questions
- What happens if I enter coordinates the wrong way round?
- We catch it. Latitude only runs from -90 to 90 and longitude from -180 to 180, so a value outside those ranges, the usual sign of a swapped pair or a typo, is refused rather than turned into a code that drops someone in the ocean. Getting the order wrong is the most common mistake with location codes.
- Which map app opens when someone scans it?
- The phone's default, Apple Maps on iPhone or Google Maps on most Android devices, opens at the coordinates you entered. Because the code carries coordinates rather than a link to one company's map, it is not tied to a single provider and keeps working regardless of which app the person uses.
Before you print
Size is the most common failure, but it is not the only one.
- Test the actual print, not the screen
- Scan it from the physical proof, at the distance and in the lighting people will really use, with an older phone if you have one. A code that scans on a monitor can fail on paper.
- Keep the quiet zone empty
- The blank margin around the code is part of the code. Scanners use it to find the edges. Placing text or a border inside it is the most common design mistake.
- Avoid glossy lamination where you can
- Gloss reflects overhead light straight back into the camera and washes out the pattern. Matt finishes scan far more reliably indoors.
- Do not print on a curve if you can avoid it
- Bottles, cups and cylinders distort the pattern. If you must, keep the code small relative to the curve and use a higher error correction level.
- Tell people what they get
- A code with no label is scanned far less often than one that says what happens next. 'Scan to see the menu' outperforms a bare code consistently.