Location QR Code Generator
Drop people at an exact spot — a trailhead, a loading dock, a booth. Scanning opens it in their maps app.
How a location QR code works
The code encodes a geo: link containing a latitude and longitude.
Scanning it opens the phone's default maps app at that exact point, ready to navigate
to.
Coordinates beat a street address whenever the address is ambiguous, shared with other units, or does not exist at all.
Where it earns its keep
- Deliveries and loading docks. Point drivers at the right entrance rather than the front door.
- Trailheads, car parks and access gates. Places with no useful postal address.
- Festival and site maps. One code per stage, stand or facility.
- Property and land listings. Send people to the plot, not the nearest postcode.
Getting it right
Finding the coordinates: in Google Maps, right-click the exact spot and click the numbers at the top of the menu to copy them. On a phone, press and hold to drop a pin and read them off the panel.
Mind the sign. Latitude is negative south of the equator, longitude negative west of Greenwich. A dropped minus puts the pin on the wrong continent — this is the single most common mistake with location codes.
Keep the decimal places. Five is roughly a metre. Rounding to two puts you a kilometre away.
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