mobile html5 launch phone's native navigation app

Question

I\'m developing a phonegap/cordova app. Is there a way to open a phone\'s native navigation app within the browser view? Or is there a best practice on opening native map applic

Answer 1

As mentioned above, the following works on Galaxy S4 Android (just tested it), to bring up the Google Maps/Navigation app and waze:

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Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI#Example

Please also see the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19765368/2728686