Share your location
Share a meeting point
Choose the spot you will all gather at — search a place, or tap and drag a pin on the map — and send one link that opens to the very same point in Google Maps for everyone. This is a spot you pick, not where you happen to be: to let people watch you arrive use live location, or to send exactly where you stand right now use share my location.
How to share a meeting point
- Find the spot. Type a place or address in the search box and pick the match — or tap “Use my location” to centre the map nearby.
- Place the pin. Tap anywhere on the map to drop the pin, then drag it to the exact corner, café or entrance you mean.
- Check the readout. Confirm the coordinates and the best-effort address below the map point at the right place.
- Send the link. Tap Share to open your phone’s share sheet, or copy the Google Maps link and paste it into any chat.
A meeting point stays put — it isn’t where you are
A meeting point pins one place that doesn’t move: the gate, the bench, the little café on the corner. Everyone who opens the link sees the same spot, even while you’re still on your way. That’s a different thing from sharing yourself. When you’d like people to watch you get closer in real time, use live location sharing — a private link that moves with you on a map and stops the instant you do. When you just want to send where you are right now, use share my location. And to follow a live link a friend sent you, go to view a live location.
Ways to choose the meeting point
| Method | Best for |
|---|---|
| Search a place or address | A named venue, a street address, or a landmark you can describe in words. |
| Tap the map | Dropping the pin straight onto a spot you can see — a park entrance, a trailhead, a specific corner. |
| Drag the pin | Nudging the point a few metres to the exact door, gate or platform after a rough placement. |
| Use my location | Centring the map near where you are so you can pick a nearby meeting spot quickly. |
What gets shared, and what doesn’t
The link is a standard Google Maps maps/search URL containing the point’s latitude and longitude in plain text, so anyone with it can open the exact spot in any browser or the Maps app — no account or install needed. We also show the same point as decimal degrees (DD) and degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS), plus a best-effort street address from OpenStreetMap for context. Choosing the point and building the link happen in your browser; we don’t store the location or tie it to you. The only network call is a cached lookup that turns coordinates into an address. All coordinates use the WGS84 datum. If you only need the raw numbers, the coordinate tools can convert and format them.