How to create a link for all mobile devices that opens google maps with a route starting at the current location, destinating a given place?

Question

I rather thought this would not be so hard to find out but appearantly it is not easy to find an awesome cross device article, like you\'d expect.

I want to create a lin

Answer 1

just bumped in this question and found here all the answers I took some of the codes above and made simple js function that works on android and iphone (it supports almost every android and iphones).

  function navigate(lat, lng) {
    // If it's an iPhone..
    if ((navigator.platform.indexOf("iPhone") !== -1) || (navigator.platform.indexOf("iPod") !== -1)) {
      function iOSversion() {
        if (/iP(hone|od|ad)/.test(navigator.platform)) {
          // supports iOS 2.0 and later
          var v = (navigator.appVersion).match(/OS (\d+)_(\d+)_?(\d+)?/);
          return [parseInt(v[1], 10), parseInt(v[2], 10), parseInt(v[3] || 0, 10)];
        }
      }
      var ver = iOSversion() || [0];

      var protocol = 'http://';
      if (ver[0] >= 6) {
        protocol = 'maps://';
      }
      window.location = protocol + 'maps.apple.com/maps?daddr=' + lat + ',' + lng + '&ll=';
    }
    else {
      window.open('http://maps.google.com?daddr=' + lat + ',' + lng + '&ll=');
    }
  }

The html:

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