A location QR encodes latitude and longitude using the geo: URI scheme. Scanning it opens the phone's default maps app with a pin dropped at those coordinates.
Useful for event venues, trailheads, parking lots, vacation rentals — anywhere the address is hard to type or doesn't have a street number.
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How to find your coordinates
In Google Maps: right-click the location and the first item shown is the lat/lon, ready to copy. On iPhone Maps: drop a pin, tap the pin, scroll to the bottom for the coordinates.
Use decimal degrees (37.7749, -122.4194), not degrees-minutes-seconds. Negative numbers are south of the equator and west of the prime meridian.
Optional label
Adding a label tags the pin with a name when the maps app supports it. iOS and Android handle this inconsistently — some show the label, some ignore it. The coordinates always work.
Frequently asked questions
- Which maps app does it open?
- Whatever the user has set as default. On iPhone that's Apple Maps unless the user has changed it. On Android, usually Google Maps.
- Can I encode an address instead of coordinates?
- Not with the geo: format. For an address, paste a Google Maps share link into the URL QR type instead.
- How accurate are the coordinates?
- We encode the decimals you enter exactly. Four decimal places give about 11-meter accuracy, which is fine for venues. Six places give about 11 cm — overkill for anything outdoors.