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How To Add a QR Code To Your Ning the Correct Way

Posted by ⚡JFarrow⌁ on March 15, 2011 at 11:31am in
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A QR Code

A QR Code (Quick response) allow you to display an URL readable by a mobile phone. Using Google Maps and Goo.gl URL Shortener, I am going to show you how to inset a QR code into your ning in the correct way.

A Practical Example.

Check out Land Surveyors United Member Map on Google Maps, which generates this LOOOOONG URL:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=216029752787869705146.000498828f08ca84b822c&t=h&z=2

Now Plug that long URL into Goo.gl URL shorter and we get this:

http://goo.gl/jz6BV

The QR Code Again

We just add .qr to the shorten URL, to get the URL of the QR Code :

http://goo.gl/jz6BV.qr

To display the QR Code, we just use an img tag :

Plug this into the HTML of a text box and we get this:

Our Result
QR code - Google Maps - LSU Member Map

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⚡JFarrow⌁ March 15, 2011 at 1:42pm

thanks Eric...hope it is useful to some NCs out there...
Brian Floe March 16, 2011 at 2:59am

I have read this post 3 times trying to understand it, but I feel more and more silly each time I admit my defeat :)))

What the heck is this post about?
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  - Speed Racer March 16, 2011 at 2:56pm
    
    oh THATS what that crazy image is! I use http://goo.gl all the time because you can see # clicks of it among other things..and wondered what the heck that was!..this is pretty darn cool, very nice JFarrow!
  - Brian Floe March 17, 2011 at 9:07am
    
    ah - I see :)
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⚡JFarrow⌁ March 16, 2011 at 2:24pm

Eric and Brian...here is an article that I made for my community of land surveyors about the QR code..may be helpful:
http://landsurveyorsunited.com/profiles/blogs/qr-codes-paperbased-h...
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Garfield Archivist March 16, 2011 at 6:02pm

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Jason Davis March 17, 2011 at 7:54am

Here is a post about this as well from my network.
Thomas Hoey March 18, 2011 at 5:58pm

Very nice. Leave this tip up. We will be using it.
Scott Bishop March 18, 2011 at 10:01pm

Wow. I didn't realize this little high tech item was so simple.

I will use this the next time I have flyers printed out!
- Speed Racer > Scott Bishop March 19, 2011 at 12:43am
  
  Scott, im totally sold on these things for some reason. I mean, anything i can think of, i can think of a way these things can be used. for instance, say a real estate investor has 3 properties he wants a contractor to go look at and price getting it sell ready. contractor gets to the site, snaps image of qr code and it takes him to a list of things investor needs him to look at, or possibly even a virtual map of the house and you go to each area of house by map guidance, with things pointed out needing to be fixed.........the possibilities of uses of these is endless...