A Google Maps QR code opens directions to a place when scanned. It is most valuable where the person scanning is not the person who saved the location: a guest with an invitation, a visitor with a ticket, a customer at a window. For saving places for yourself, Google Maps already does that better than any QR code.
This code was generated on this page, in your browser. Point your phone camera at it — it opens this guide. Every code the generator makes works the same way.
Make your own — freeA plain address makes a short link and a clean code. A copied Maps place link is far longer and produces a denser code, but pins an exact spot an address search might miss.
A standard Google Maps directions URL needs no API key and no account. Our location tool builds it for you and produces a printable card.
A map gets people to a coordinate. Parking, which entrance, which floor and a phone number belong on a landing page behind the code.
“Scan for directions” is the highest-converting label for this type, because it names a problem the reader already has.
Copied Maps URLs run to well over a hundred characters, which makes a dense code needing a larger print size. An address is much shorter.
Rural postcodes can cover a wide area and new builds often have no recognised address. Drop a pin at the actual entrance.
The commonest arrival problem is not finding the street, it is finding somewhere to leave the car.
Our location tool produces a directions card sized for invitations, signage or business cards.
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