Type an address, paste coordinates or any map link, and get a Google Maps link you can share anywhere - plus one link that opens Google Maps on Android, Apple Maps on iPhone or Waze.
Try a street address, 48.8584, 2.2945 or a maps.app.goo.gl link
48.8584, 2.2945, or paste a map link you already have.The Google Maps link uses Google's official cross-platform format, for example https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=48.8584,2.2945. It opens the Google Maps app on Android, the Google Maps app on iPhone when it is installed (Safari otherwise), and Google Maps in the browser on a computer. No API key or Google account is involved.
A location link drops a pin on one place - right for a shop, a meeting point or a trailhead with no street address. A directions link opens a route between two points, in the form https://www.google.com/maps/dir/start/destination, with walking or transit added when you pick them. The person opening it can still change the travel mode.
If the place has no reliable address - a festival gate, a beach access, a loading dock - use coordinates. They pin the exact spot instead of letting a text search guess.
A Google Maps link always opens Google's app or website. Plenty of iPhone owners use Apple Maps instead, and drivers often prefer Waze. Rather than sending a Google-only link, share the mapfwd link for the same spot:
mapfwd.com/u09tunquc9 shows every map app for that location, so each person taps the one they use.mapfwd.com/a/u09tunquc9 opens a map app straight away: Apple Maps on iPhone, iPad and Mac, the phone's default map app on Android (Google Maps on most phones), Bing Maps on Windows and Google Maps in the browser everywhere else.Both are short enough to put in a text message, an email signature or a printed flyer.
Paste it into the box above - long google.com/maps URLs and short maps.app.goo.gl share links both work. Or type mapfwd.com/ in front of the link in your browser's address bar to jump straight to the result page. See converting Google Maps links to Apple Maps for more.
No. Google Maps links are plain URLs that anyone can create and open for free. mapfwd.com does not need an account either.
Yes. Enter the coordinates as decimals (48.8584, 2.2945), as degrees, minutes and seconds (48°51'30"N 2°17'40"E) or as a geo: URI, and the link pins that exact point.
On Android it opens the Google Maps app. On iPhone it opens the Google Maps app if it is installed and Safari otherwise. On a computer it opens Google Maps in the browser.
No. The Google Maps link has the coordinates in it, and the mapfwd.com link stores the location in the link itself (accurate to about a metre), so neither depends on a database that could be cleared.
A mapfwd.com link is the domain plus ten characters, for example mapfwd.com/u09tunquc9, and it opens the same place in Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze and other apps.
Free, no sign-up. The location lives in the link itself, so it never expires.