QR code for a location
Coordinates in a geo: code, which drops a pin in the phone’s own map app rather than sending anyone through a third party.
A location QR code stores a geo: point — latitude and longitude — that a phone opens in its maps app.
Style this code — colour, shape, branding, frame and output
Colour & contrastThe ink, the paper behind it, and the three eyes. Every choice is contrast-checked as you make it.
ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.
BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.
Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.
OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.
Print-ready PDF
A press file at the finished size: 3mm bleed, crop marks and a trim box a print shop’s checks read. The code is drawn black on white whatever the design above — how a colour prints is something only a test print can show.
A pin, not a route
A geo: code opens the map at that point. It does not start navigation, and it does not know where the person is standing — they choose to route from there. Saying "scan for directions" on the sign overstates what happens next.
Coordinates beat an address for a place with no address
A gate on a farm road, a stall in a market, an entrance around the back. These are exactly the places a written address sends people to the wrong side of, and a pin does not.
Six decimal places is a doorway; three is a district
Each decimal place is roughly a tenth of the previous one. Five gives about a metre, which is more than enough; three gives about a hundred metres, which is a different building.
Location QR codes
Which map app does it open?
The phone’s default. It is not tied to any one provider, which a shared map link would be.
Can I add a label to the pin?
geo: carries coordinates only. If the pin needs a name, a map link is the better choice — at the cost of depending on that map service.
Where do I find my coordinates?
Long-press your spot in any map app and it will show them. Copy them exactly; a transposed digit is a pin in the sea.
How accurate do the coordinates need to be?
Five decimal places puts the pin within about a metre, which is more than enough to find a doorway. More digits make the symbol larger and change nothing anyone would notice.
Built to ISO/IEC 18004:2024 (the QR code symbology) · RFC 5870 (the geo: URI)