Free Waze Link Generator

A Waze deep link is an ordinary https URL that opens Waze at a specific place or starts turn by turn navigation to it. The base address, from the official docs at developers.google.com/waze, is https://waze.com/ul, and everything else is query parameters: ll for coordinates, q for a search, navigate=yes to start driving, z for zoom. Because it is a plain URL, it works from a web page, an email, an SMS, a QR code, or another app.

Depends on the device, and that behaviour is exactly what the docs describe. On desktop the link opens Waze as a web page. On a phone with the Waze app installed, the app opens. On a phone without the app, the Waze web page opens instead. That fallback is why this tool outputs the https form rather than the raw app scheme, one link covers all three cases.

The waze:// scheme is documented for app-to-app communication when you are certain the Waze app is installed, for example inside your own mobile app after checking for it. The docs are blunt about the downside: if the app is not installed, tapping a waze:// link does nothing. For anything public, a website, an email, a QR code, use the https://waze.com/ul form this tool generates, which falls back to the web when the app is missing.

It tells Waze to start a navigation session to the location instead of just showing it. Leave the toggle off and the parameter is omitted, so the link centers the map on the spot and marks it, which suits a "view on map" button. The docs only ever show navigate=yes, so this tool treats off as leaving the parameter out entirely rather than sending a made-up navigate=no.

Coordinates when precision matters, an address when convenience matters. The ll parameter pins an exact latitude and longitude, so the driver lands on your gate, your parking entrance, or your stall, not the middle of the street. The q parameter runs a search for the text you pass, the docs call the feature Search, so the result depends on how well that text matches. For businesses with ambiguous names or new addresses, coordinates win.

Yes. Paste a Google Maps URL into the field on the coordinates tab and the tool extracts the latitude and longitude in your browser. It reads the @lat,lng viewport marker, coordinate pairs in q=, query=, ll=, destination= or center= parameters, and the !3d/!4d pin markers that Google Maps place URLs carry. No geocoding service is called, so a Maps link that contains only a place name and no coordinates cannot be converted, use the address tab for those.

The z parameter sets the magnification of the map view. The documented range runs from 6, which is the closest view with the most magnification, to 8192, which is the farthest. Note the direction: smaller means closer, which trips people up because most map URLs work the other way around. Waze's own examples also spell it zoom= in one place, but the parameter syntax section documents z, so that is what this tool emits.

Yes. The official parameter table lists avoid_tolls, avoid_ferries, and avoid_freeways, each taking true or t to avoid and false or f to allow, with allow as the default. This tool adds them under Route options and only writes a parameter when you switch it on, since the documented default already applies when it is absent. The docs also note that with no routing parameters at all, Waze simply uses the driver's own settings.

It tells Waze what kind of vehicle to route for. The documented values are private, the default passenger vehicle, plus taxi and motorcycle. It is mainly useful for fleets: a taxi dispatch link or a courier app can route drivers with the rules that apply to their vehicle. When you leave it on private, the tool omits the parameter, because that is already the default.

The docs document a favorite parameter with two supported values, work and home, for example https://waze.com/ul?favorite=work&navigate=yes. The favorites are the ones saved in the Waze app that opens the link, so the link navigates each person to their own saved Work or Home. That makes it handy for personal shortcuts and automations, and useless for sending someone to your office, which is why this generator sticks to coordinates and addresses.

No. A Waze deep link is a plain URL, there is nothing to authenticate and nothing to register. This generator is also free with no sign-up: it builds the URL entirely in your browser, your addresses and coordinates never reach our servers, and the history panel lives in your browser's localStorage, capped at the last twenty links. Pressing Build fires one product analytics event carrying only the tool name and the mode, nothing from your input.

Waze's deep link docs offer no click reporting, a deep link is fire and forget. The fix is to wrap the Waze URL in a Flyn short link: the short link counts every click before redirecting into Waze, so you learn how many drivers your listing, flyer, or SMS actually sent. For posters and table tents, drop the link, short or long, into our free QR code generator so drivers can scan instead of typing.