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Location QR code generator

Coordinates, not a business listing. Scanning drops a pin at the exact spot — the loading bay round the back, the trailhead, the plot in the field — and offers directions.

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  • No sign-up
  • No expiry
  • Commercial use
Short answer

A location QR code encodes geographic coordinates using the geo: URI scheme. Scanning it opens the phone's default map app with a pin at that point. Because it uses coordinates rather than an address, it can mark places that have no postal address at all.

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Coordinates

How to find the numbers

Right-click the spot in Google Maps on desktop and the coordinates appear at the top of the menu, ready to copy. On mobile, press and hold to drop a pin and the coordinates show in the search bar.

Format is decimal degrees: 53.79648, -1.54785. Not degrees-minutes-seconds. Positive latitude is north, negative is south; positive longitude is east, negative is west. Five decimal places puts you within about a metre, which is more precision than any delivery driver needs.

What it fixes

Places that addresses describe badly

  • Delivery entrances that are on a different street from the shop front.
  • Festival gates, campsite pitches and car park entrances on a large site.
  • Trailheads, viewpoints and bothies with no address at all.
  • Construction site access points that change as the build progresses.
  • Farm gates and field entrances identified only by a grid reference.
  • Meeting points at airports and stations, where Terminal 2 covers a lot of ground.
App behaviour

Which map opens depends on the phone

The geo: scheme opens whichever map app the phone treats as default — Apple Maps on a stock iPhone, Google Maps on most Android handsets. You do not get to choose, and that is usually fine.

If you specifically need Google Maps on every device, encode a https://maps.google.com/?q=lat,lng link with the link generator instead. It is longer, so the code will be denser, but the destination is predictable.

Questions

Frequently asked

Which map app opens when it is scanned?
The phone's default — Apple Maps on iPhone, usually Google Maps on Android. Encode a maps.google.com URL if you need one specific app.
Can I use a street address instead of coordinates?
The geo: format expects coordinates. For an address, encode a maps link with the address as a query instead.
How precise should the coordinates be?
Five decimal places is about one metre. Four is about ten metres, which is plenty for a building entrance.
Does it give turn-by-turn directions?
It opens the pin. From there the map app's own directions button takes over, using the person's current position.
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Last reviewed 24 August 2026 · Checked by the QR Code Builder team