Drop a pin on the map above (or paste coordinates) and OpenQR generates a free location QR code that opens your exact spot in the phone’s maps app, ready for directions: no address typing, no “which entrance?” confusion. The coordinates are encoded in your browser and never sent to a server.
To create yours:
Find your location
Search or drag the pin to the exact point: a door, a stall, a car park.
Confirm the coordinates
Latitude and longitude fill in automatically.
Customise the look (optional)
Add a logo, brand colours and a “Find us” frame.
Download free
PNG for screens, vector SVG or PDF for print. No watermark.
Where a location QR code fits
Wedding invites, festival signage, delivery instructions, market stalls and “meet here” posters are the usual uses.
A location QR code stores a standard geo: link holding the latitude and longitude. iPhone (iOS 11+) and Android (10+) open that link in Apple Maps or Google Maps. Because the coordinates are written into the pattern itself, the code works forever and offline: there is no server and no link to break. To point at a specific Google Maps listing or business page instead, use a URL QR code with your Maps share link.
A geo: code skips geocoding entirely: it hands the maps app exact latitude and longitude, so the map opens on that point rather than guessing from a street name. A postal address usually resolves to a building’s front door or its postcode centre, which is the wrong spot for a site entrance round the back, a trade counter down a side alley, a delivery bay with its own access road, or a festival gate that isn’t on any street at all. The maps app can still offer directions once it opens: tap Directions and it works out a route from wherever the scanner is standing. The pin just guarantees they land on the right dot first.
OpenQR stores your pin to six decimal places of latitude and longitude, which is tighter than a phone’s own GPS can usually place someone anyway. In practice the pin you drop by searching, dragging or tapping the map is already exact enough: the limiting factor is how carefully you place it, not how the coordinates are stored.
| Decimal places kept | Size of the area that pins down |
|---|---|
| 2 | about 1 km |
| 4 | about 11 m |
| 6 | about 10 cm |
The coordinates are written into the code itself, so a location QR code can’t be repointed once it’s printed. A stall that moves to a different pitch next year, or an office that relocates, leaves every printed code pointing at the old spot. For anything that might move, use a URL QR code with a Google Maps share link instead of a geo code, and make that one editable so the destination updates without a reprint.
The same tool, written for a specific trade, with the wording and examples that trade uses.