Mobile Map Links

546961 · 18th Jul 2012, 05:22 PM

This is a technical question related to Best Practices for building mobile websites.

I have an Android phone. Most of the time when I am at a mobile site and click on a "directions" link my navigation app opens up and handles it very seamlessly.

I want to create these types of links on the mobile websites I am building, but for the life of me i can't find any documentation to make it happen. Maybe I am just using the wrong search phrases...

How do you handle directions links in the mobile sites that you build?

ChristopherGabriel · 18th Jul 2012, 06:50 PM

I make mobile apps with a wysiwyg, not to much different than mobile websites, I copy and paste addresses directly from Google, when people click the link on the app it prompts the navigation menu.

I never really checked on any of my mobile sites, assumed it to be the same.

Hope this helps,
Chris

546961 · 18th Jul 2012, 07:03 PM

Thanks for this feedback. Any idea whether a Google Maps link will launch a native GPS app on the iphone?

Nail Yener · 18th Jul 2012, 10:50 PM

I don't know what your navigation app does but I use Google Maps JavaScript API in my mobile website designs. Here are the reference links:

Maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/d...cript/tutorial
Directions: https://developers.google.com/maps/d...ipt/directions

It is a little complicated but you need to get used to it if you want to use it properly.

By the way, can you give a link to one of those sites you are talking about?

18th Jul 2012, 05:22 PM	#1
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18th Jul 2012, 06:50 PM	#2
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546961 Warrior Member Join Date: 2011 Posts: 17 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 1 Post	Re: Mobile Map Links Share on: Thanks for this feedback. Any idea whether a Google Maps link will launch a native GPS app on the iphone?

18th Jul 2012, 10:50 PM	#4
Nail Yener You reap what you sow. War Room Member Join Date: 2008 Location: Sometimes you don't. Posts: 1,078 Thanks: 196 Thanked 411 Times in 243 Posts	Re: Mobile Map Links Share on: I don't know what your navigation app does but I use Google Maps JavaScript API in my mobile website designs. Here are the reference links: Maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/d...cript/tutorial Directions: https://developers.google.com/maps/d...ipt/directions It is a little complicated but you need to get used to it if you want to use it properly. By the way, can you give a link to one of those sites you are talking about?