How can you use Plus Codes?
Learn about Plus Codes
Explore how Plus Codes can benefit individuals and organizations.
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.
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.
As a business or organization
Small and Medium-sized Business
Commercial Delivery
Emergency Services
Government
NGO
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Rural Utah Project
In rural United States, the Rural Utah Project is using Plus Codes to help members of the Navajo Nation register to vote, and to help emergency services reach residents faster.
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
In Somalia, the International Rescue Committee mapped locations of clients for a family planning and immunization project, ensuring women and children received timely follow-up care.