WAZE NAVIGATION

QR code for Waze navigation

Coordinates with navigation requested, for a destination people drive to rather than look up.

A Waze QR code stores a Waze link to a destination, which a phone opens in Waze ready to navigate.

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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

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

Background picture

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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

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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://waze.com/ul?ll=19.076,72.8777&navigate=yesThe exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

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Your code

v433×33 modulesbyteEC-M52/64mask 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

This one does ask for navigation

Unlike the plain location and map-search types, a Waze link carries navigate=yes — so Waze offers to route there rather than only showing the point. It is the only type here where "scan for directions" is an accurate thing to print.

It needs Waze, which is the trade

Without the app the link opens Waze’s website, which is a poor substitute at a road junction. On a sign facing general traffic the plain location code reaches everyone; this one reaches drivers who already use Waze, and serves them better.

Coordinates, not an address

Same precision rule as the location type: five decimal places is about a metre, three is about a hundred. For a delivery entrance or a site gate, that difference is the whole point of using coordinates at all.

Waze QR codes

What if the driver does not have Waze?

They get the Waze website. If that matters, print the plain location code instead — it opens whatever map app the phone already has.

Can I use an address instead of coordinates?

Not here. An address has to be resolved by somebody, and resolving it at scan time can send a driver to a different building than the one you meant.

Does it start driving immediately?

Waze offers the route. Starting it is the driver’s decision, as it should be.

Why coordinates rather than a business name?

Waze resolves names differently on different devices, and a code that navigates somewhere else is worse than one that does nothing. Coordinates mean one destination for everyone.

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