The invention relates to a geographic position information sharing method and device. The method comprises: when a position public sharing instruction is received, acquiring a first positioning map ofthe current position of a user in a first map application; performing screenshot processing on the first positioning map to obtain a map picture; obtaining map display parameters of the first positioning map, wherein the map display parameters are used for restoring map conditions in the first positioning map; encoding the map display parameters, writing the encoded map display parameters into picture information of the map picture, and generating a map picture carrying the map display parameters; and sending the map picture carrying the map display parameters to the shared party. According to the technical scheme, the shared party can visually see the geographic position of the sharing party, and the operation is simple.