For the door that is impossible to find.
Paste the link you copied out of Maps. We dig the coordinates out of it and build a code that opens whichever map app the person already uses — not the one we happen to prefer.
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Light grounds only — the code has to stay darker than what it sits on.
Where these earn their keep
Entrances that are not on the street
Round the back, through the yard, second door on the left. Coordinates do not care what the address says.
Industrial estates and new builds
Where the postcode covers forty units and the satnav gives up at the gate.
Festivals, sites and car parks
Temporary places with no address at all. A code on the ticket is the only directions that work.
Six looks, made for signs people read once.
Pick one and it fills in the generator above. Every combination has been printed and read back.
Questions people ask
Where do I get the link?
Open the place in Google Maps, press share, and paste what it gives you. You can also paste coordinates directly if you have them. Asking you for latitude and longitude would be asking a question almost nobody can answer, so we do not.
Which map app does it open?
Theirs. The code carries a point on the earth rather than a link to one company's map, so it opens in whatever the person already has set up — which on a phone you do not control is the only sensible answer.
What if my link has no coordinates in it?
Then the code carries the link itself, which still opens the right place in a browser. Not as good, and much better than refusing.