Location QR code for maps and directions
Type an address, enter coordinates or paste a Google or Apple Maps link. A scan opens the place on a map with directions one tap away.
Dynamic & Editable
Change where it points after printing, and see who scans it.
Type a destination to download.
This is an example code. Style it now — yours takes its place as you type.
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Location codes
Why this one should be dynamic
The address is the part of a sign people most often misread: a missed unit number, a car park round the back, a venue with two doors. A dynamic location code can be corrected once the sign is up, and when a pop-up, a market pitch or an open house moves, the boards already standing follow it. It also opens Apple Maps on an iPhone, which needs nothing installed, and Google Maps everywhere else.
A pin, not a guess
Coordinates beat a street address
Where an address drops people at the wrong entrance, give latitude and longitude instead. We keep six decimal places, about ten centimetres, and when both are filled in the coordinates place the pin while the name labels it.
Each phone’s own map
Apple Maps on iPhone, Google Maps elsewhere
A dynamic code decides per scan, so iPhone owners are not pushed into an app they never installed. A static one opens Google Maps, in the app where it is installed and in the browser where it is not.
When it moves
Move the place, keep the sign
A food truck with a weekly pitch, a shop between premises, directional arrows reused for every viewing: change the place in the dashboard and every printed copy opens the new one.
Before it goes to print
The spec sheet for this job
Location codes live outside and get read on the move, on windows, A-boards, lamp-post arrows and estate agent boards. Laminate or use outdoor vinyl for anything left in the weather, mount it at chest height rather than near the pavement, and keep it away from glossy glass that throws glare into the camera. Say where it leads, such as “Directions to the side entrance”, because an unlabelled code on a sign reads as an advert. Then stand where a visitor would, scan it, and check the pin sits on the door people should use, not the middle of the roof.
Print spec
- Window sticker
- 30 mm, inside the glass, chest height
- Board read from 3 m
- 30 cm square
- Outdoors
- Laminated or UV-resistant vinyl
- Label
- “Directions” and the street name
- Pin check
- On the entrance you want used
What lasts: static codes are yours forever, with no account. Dynamic codes run on a plan and keep working for 30 days after you cancel. How printed codes stay working
Static or dynamic
Which one belongs on this
A place that will not move, like a landmark or the car park of a venue you own, suits a free static code: it holds a Google Maps link every phone opens, and it outlives any account. Take dynamic when the address could change, when you want iPhones in Apple Maps, or when you want a count of how many people the sign actually sent.
Static is free forever. Dynamic is free for 3 codes, then from $12 a month.
Paid plans from $12/mo. Unlimited scans. Cancel online in two clicks.
Questions
Location codes, answered
- Does a location QR code open Google Maps or Apple Maps?
- A static one always opens Google Maps, which every phone can show. A dynamic one sends iPhones to Apple Maps and every other phone to Google Maps.
- Why not put a geo: link in the code?
- The iPhone camera does not offer to open geo: links, so a code holding one does nothing for a large share of the people who scan it. A maps web link works on every phone.
- Should I enter the address or the coordinates?
- Coordinates, whenever the address is vague: a large site, a rural spot, a stall inside a market, a side door. Copy them from a long press on the map in Google or Apple Maps.
- Can I paste the link from the Share button in Google Maps?
- Yes, and it will work, but a short maps.app.goo.gl link hides the exact place, so every phone gets Google Maps. Paste the full google.com/maps link or the coordinates if iPhones should open Apple Maps.
- Why does the pin land on the wrong building?
- The map app matches the address itself, and on new builds, business parks and rural roads its guess can be a street out. Coordinates taken from the exact spot leave it nothing to guess.
- Can I reuse the same signs for the next open house?
- With a dynamic code, yes. Point the arrows at this weekend’s address and move them to the next property on Monday; the print stays the same.
Choosing the map by phone is a built-in case of smart QR codes that send each scan somewhere different. Moving a sign’s destination after it is up is what editable, dynamic QR codes are for. Branch networks and property portals can generate them from their own systems with the API docs for location codes, and plans and prices list how many each account holds.