How to Share Your Location With Google Plus Codes
When you need to deliver something or need to call for help, you will likely give the person on the other end of the line your address. What if you do not know the address or where it is not? Google is currently rolling out a new Google Maps feature called “Plus Codes” that makes it easy to share your location with anyone on the planet, even when you’re in a cabin in the woods.
The tool essentially creates an “address” for you based on the latitude and longitude coordinates of where you are. You can use these coordinates to mark the location of a house, as well as something like a tent or boat.
To create it, you touch the blue dot on Google Maps that shows where you are now. When you do, a new page will open with your Plus code at the top.
For example, you can see “FWM8 + V9, Ibadan, Nigeria”. This is very similar to an address, except that instead of a street name and number, you have “FWM8 + V9”.
Plus codes can be obtained through the blue location dot, as well as by pressing and holding the map to place a pin somewhere.
Once you have it, Plus codes are searchable on both Google Maps and Google Search.
They also stay the same for individual locations forever, so you can print them on a poster, sign them or give them out to an invited guest, and if they search for them on Google Maps, they can always find you – even without a mailing address.