MAP SEARCH

QR code for a Google Maps place

A search link rather than a pin, so the map finds the place by name — useful when the exact coordinates are not what you want.

A Google Maps QR code stores a Maps link to a place or a search, which a phone opens in Google Maps.

Add the content

Place or addressWhat you would type into the search box. A business name works if it is listed.

Style this code

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.

Foreground

18.0:1 against the background — clears the 4.5:1 a camera wants margin on.

Background

Transparency0%

Eye colours

ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.

Modules

Every shape here is decode-tested before it is offered. Shapes that lose the symbol — diamond, star, heart — are not on this list, however good they look.

Eye frame

Eye centre

BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.

Logo image

Upload a logo

PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2MB. The modules beneath it are cleared and error correction rises to cover the hole.

Background picture

Upload a picture

Sits behind the modules, quiet zone included. A busy picture is the classic reason a decorated code stops scanning — check the preview with a phone before printing.

Foreground texture

Upload a texture

Washes over the ink itself, so it is capped well below full strength — at full strength there is no code left to scan.

Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.

Frame style

A frame is drawn outside the quiet zone, never into it — the canvas grows instead, so the border cannot cost the code its margin.

OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.

Options

PNG size

Margin4 modulesError correctionEncoding

Automatic picks the smallest encoding that carries your text, and is right almost always. The other three exist for older scanners that expect one specific encoding; each refuses text it cannot carry rather than mangling it. Encodings we cannot convert to correctly are not offered at all.The margin never goes below 4 — ISO/IEC 18004's minimum; smaller is not a QR code. A logo raises error correction to at least Q. Encoding is chosen by the encoder per symbol and shown in the readout — a manual charset menu only makes codes bigger.

Embedded data

https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Gateway%20of%20India%2C%20MumbaiThe exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

Save this design — free account, the code stays editable →

Your code

v537×37 modulesbyteEC-M82/86mask 2

4/4 4 of 4 checks passHow we measure

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.

Format

No account · no watermark · no scan limits

A search, which is a different thing from a pin

This encodes a Google Maps search for the text you enter, so the map resolves it at scan time — a business that moves within the same listing still resolves. The geo: type drops a fixed pin instead, which never moves and never updates.

It depends on Google, and the geo: type does not

A search link is answered by one company. The plain location type opens whatever map app the phone prefers and needs nobody. Choose the search when the name matters more than independence, and the pin when the opposite is true.

A wrong name is a wrong place, silently

Search resolves whatever it thinks you meant. A misspelling or a common business name can land people somewhere plausible and wrong, and the code will look like it worked. Scan it and check before printing.

Map QR codes

Should I use this or a plain location code?

This one if the place is listed and might move. The location type if you need a fixed point, or an entrance a listing does not describe.

Does it start navigation?

It opens the search result. Routing is the reader’s next tap.

Will it open the Google Maps app?

If installed and it claims the link. Otherwise the browser, which shows the same map.

What if my place name matches somewhere else?

Maps picks its best match, which may not be yours. For a common name use the full address, or a location code with coordinates, which cannot be mistaken.

Want to change it after it’s printed?

Make it a dynamic code: it carries a short link you can point somewhere new at any time, and it counts every scan. A free account includes 5 dynamic codes and needs no card — and a dynamic code keeps redirecting even if you never upgrade.

Make it dynamic, free How dynamic codes work