Free Google Maps QR Code Generator

Make a free Google Maps QR code that guides people to you

This Google Maps QR code generator turns your location into a scannable code. One scan opens Google Maps at your spot, and directions are a single tap from there. Put it on business cards, invoices, event invites, and signage so nobody types your address by hand.

The field above takes whatever you already have: a Google Maps share link, a typed address or business name, or coordinates. The code is static: free, with no account and no expiry date, and it keeps working for as long as the Google Maps link inside it does. To change where it points after printing, or to count scans, save it as a dynamic code in a free QRplify account.

Coordinates work here too, and open in Google Maps. To put the bare coordinates in the code instead, as a geo link with no web address in between, use the GPS location QR code generator.

What a Google Maps QR code does

• Opens Google Maps at your spot: phones with the app open it there; everyone else gets the browser version. Directions work in both.
• Takes a link, an address, or a place name: paste a share link, or type the name and address the way you would search for them.
• Coordinates work too: useful for market stalls, trailheads, and spots with no street address.
• Stays fixed: the printed code always holds the same link.

A pasted link goes into the code as it is. An address, a name or coordinates become a Google Maps search link, such as https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Bryant%20Park%2C%20New%20York.

Get the right link or coordinates from Google Maps

A share link opens exactly the place you shared, so start there.

In the Google Maps app on Android, iPhone or iPad

1. Open the Google Maps app.
2. Search for your place, or touch and hold the map to drop a pin.
3. At the bottom, tap the place’s name or address.
4. Tap Share and choose an app to send the link to, such as a message to yourself. Copy the link from there.

On a computer

1. Open Google Maps and go to your place on the map.
2. At the top left, click Menu, then Share or embed map.
3. Click Send a link, then Copy link.

Paste the link on its own, with nothing before or after it. Text before a link turns the code into a Google Maps search for all of it.

Share the place, not your location. A Location sharing link shows your real-time location, and only for a limited time: Google says up to 24 hours, or up to 3 days if you extend it on an iPhone or iPad. It does not belong on print.

For a spot with no address, copy coordinates. On a computer, right-click the spot, then click the latitude and longitude at the top of the pop-up to copy them. On a phone, touch and hold an unlabeled part of the map to drop a pin: Android shows the coordinates in the search box, iPhone and iPad in the placesheet. Google’s format is decimal degrees with a dot, latitude first, such as 41.40338, 2.17403, not 41,40338, 2,17403. Latitude runs from -90 to 90 and longitude from -180 to 180.

Steps from Google Maps Help: Share, send, or print directions from Google Maps, Search by latitude & longitude in Google Maps and Share your real-time location with others in Google Maps.

Chrome’s QR code, or this one?

Google Maps shares a place as a link, or on a computer as code to embed a map on a website. For a QR code, Google’s Chrome browser can turn any page you have open into one, from Share on a phone or Cast, save, and share on a computer. Use Chrome’s code if it does all you need. Use this generator when the code goes on something people see:

Printable designs can also print a typed address or place name under the code, below “Or look it up on a map”, for people who would rather not scan. Chrome’s steps: Share tabs in Chrome.

What Google allows in print

• Printing the link is fine. Google’s guidelines for Google Maps in print list links to a Google Maps location, such as short links or QR codes, among the uses that need no request.
• A map image beside the code has its own rules. Google requires its attribution on any Google Maps content you print. It allows a small map that helps people find you on promotional print such as business cards and flyers, up to 5,000 copies, but not as the main feature of an ad.
• No Street View images in print. Google does not allow Street View imagery in print, promotional material included, so show a tricky entrance with your own photo.
• The Google Maps logo and red pin are Google trademarks. Google allows them only to refer to Google Maps accurately, and only in approved versions. The generator also offers a plain pin icon, or you can upload your own logo.

Google’s page: Geo Guidelines for Google Maps, Google Earth and Street View.

Best uses for a Google Maps QR code

• Business cards and invoices: directions to the office without the typing.
• Wedding and event invites: guests scan and go.
• Tricky entrances: guide visitors to the right door, gate, or parking lot.
• Drivers and deliveries: pair it with a Waze QR code where your audience navigates by traffic.

How to create it

1. Enter your place: paste a Google Maps share link, or type the address or business name in the field above. Coordinates like 40.7536, -73.9832 work too.
2. Check the preview: scan it and confirm the map opens on the right spot, not a namesake.
3. Style it: set colors, add a center logo, and use a frame label like “Scan for directions”.
4. Download: PNG at 4096 px (3000 px on iPhone and iPad) for print, JPG for screens, and SVG at any size, or PDF in its place when a printable design is on.

Scan test on 2 phones before printing, one with the Google Maps app and one without.

Tips for reliable scans

• Type the name with the address: Google recommends the place name plus its address when the scan should show that place’s details. A name alone can bring up search results instead, such as several branches of a chain, and for a general term with no place, such as “pizza”, Google looks for listings near the person scanning.
• Prefer the share link for precision: it pins the exact place, and it is short, so the code stays easy to scan.
• Know what coordinates show: Google notes that coordinates drop a pin with no place details, so use them where there is no listing to show.
• Size for distance: parking signs and banners get scanned from far away; make the code bigger.
• Keep contrast high: a dark code on a light background, with clear space around it.

Search behavior from Google’s Maps URLs guide, the link format the generator builds from an address, a name or coordinates.

Publish your Google Maps QR code

Enter your place above, scan the preview to confirm the pin, and download a PNG or SVG for print, or a JPG for screens.