Learn about Plus Codes
Explore how Plus Codes can benefit individuals and organizations.
Using Plus Codes as an individual
Use Plus Codes to share any location—your home, a store, a meeting place - even if there are no street names or even streets. Friends, family, and service providers will find your home without relying on landmarks or asking for directions along the way.
When you travel to unfamiliar places, Plus Codes save you time by guiding you directly to your exact destination.
Using Plus Codes as an organization
Small and medium-sized business
Help customers find you by giving them your Plus Code. If you deliver goods to customers, you can find the right location easily using their Plus Codes, even without street names and numbers.
Commercial delivery
Get goods to the right place, every time - whether it's areas with traditional addressing, areas with no street names, rural areas or informal settlements. Use Plus Codes to get precise pickup and drop-off locations so your logistics operations run smoothly and efficiently.
Emergency services
Help responders get assistance to citizens as fast as possible, with Plus Codes that pinpoint locations accurately. Coordinate rescue efforts with partner agencies for rapid service using an easy to use shared location code.
Government
Deliver services to all citizens, including mail and social assistance, no matter where they live. Ensure that citizens receive official communications and can register to vote.
NGO
Using Plus Codes, deliver humanitarian and disaster relief to coordinate activities in regions where mapping data is incomplete or nonexistent. Conduct better record-keeping and tracking of services by detailing locations served.
Small and medium-sized business
Small and medium-sized business
Help customers find you by giving them your Plus Code. If you deliver goods to customers, you can find the right location easily using their Plus Codes, even without street names and numbers.
Commercial delivery
Commercial delivery
Get goods to the right place, every time - whether it's areas with traditional addressing, areas with no street names, rural areas or informal settlements. Use Plus Codes to get precise pickup and drop-off locations so your logistics operations run smoothly and efficiently.
Emergency services
Emergency services
Help responders get assistance to citizens as fast as possible, with Plus Codes that pinpoint locations accurately. Coordinate rescue efforts with partner agencies for rapid service using an easy to use shared location code.
Government
Government
Deliver services to all citizens, including mail and social assistance, no matter where they live. Ensure that citizens receive official communications and can register to vote.
NGO
NGO
Using Plus Codes, deliver humanitarian and disaster relief to coordinate activities in regions where mapping data is incomplete or nonexistent. Conduct better record-keeping and tracking of services by detailing locations served.
Case Studies
Case Studies
Addressing the Unaddressed
In dense underserved areas of Kolkata, the non-profit group Addressing the Unaddressed added Plus Codes to the doorways of peoples' homes giving hundreds of thousands of people a functioning address. This allowed these residents to receive mail to their home and open bank accounts for the first time.
CEP Digital: Bringing Addresses and Inclusion to Brazilian Favelas
A partnership between Google and NaPorta has given over 80,000 people a functional address, enabling them to access services and be recognized on official maps.
Favela Brasil Xpress
How Plus Codes and Favela Brasil Xpress are Transforming Access to Services in One of São Paulo's Largest Communities
Jardines de San Juan: On the Map, In the Heart
How a a dynamic community near Mexico City transformed using Plus Codes, moving from the fringes to being firmly on the map
County governments in Kenya
Google has collaborated with county governments in Kenya to assign Plus Codes to businesses and social amenities in several cities, including Kisumu and Vihiga. The project aims to provide a reliable, digital addressing system in communities that previously lacked them, which has historically hindered economic development and the provision of essential services. By piloting the initiative with 20,000 addresses per county, Google is using Plus Codes to enable the delivery of both digital and non-digital services.
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
In Somalia the International Rescue Committee (IRC) mapped locations of clients for an immunization and family planning project, ensuring that women and children received timely follow-up care.
Nepal Postal Service
The Nepal Postal Service is leveraging Google Plus Codes to modernize its mail delivery system and address the long-standing problem of inefficient and inaccurate deliveries caused by unclear addresses.
PlanAct South Africa
In South Africa, the organization Planact has partnered with Google to provide digital addresses to residents of informal settlements using Plus Codes.
Rural Utah Project
The Rural Utah Project (RUP) empowers underrepresented voters in rural Utah through training, education, and issue advocacy. RUP’s Navajo Nation voter registration program provides addresses to Navajo Nation residents to aid in voter registration, emergency services, and mail delivery.
Rural Routes of São Paulo and Google's Plus Codes
In the state of São Paulo, the absence of standardized addresses for rural properties represented a significant obstacle.To tackle this challenge, the Government of the State of São Paulo and Google launched the "Rotas Rurais" program, integrating Plus Codes technology into the state's rural addressing system.
Shelter Associates
Shelter Associates introduced Plus Codes in Kolhapur, India helping residents with easy and efficient deliveries.
Modernizing municipal services in The Gambia
In The Gambia, the Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) is using Plus Codes to modernize its municipal services like waste management and property tax collection, with a D30 million budget to pilot a two-year project aimed at improving efficiency, transparency, and public trust.