Current Location - Google Maps - Link to Directions

Question

I'm trying to do what seemed to be an easy thing but has resulted in some confusion. I'm trying to have a link going to Google Maps with the destination address pre-filled and the from address to inherit the user's current location. From what someone else had instructed, if I used 'current location' as the 'from address', it'd do everything for me.

Instead, when I access the URL from a different location, it's still loading the original "current location" and not the actual current location.

I'm sure it's something stupidly easy, but I'm hoping that someone could point me in the right direction.

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Answer 1

For those still looking, here are some methods of linking to Google Maps:

Spaces can be changed to + or encoded as %20.

• Linking to a location (No directions)

  https://www.google.com/maps?q=760+West+Genesee+Street+Syracuse+NY+13204 

• No starting point (User input required to generate directions).

  https://www.google.com/maps?daddr=760+West+Genesee+Street+Syracuse+NY+13204 

• With a set location as starting point (Automatically generates directions with no user input required).

  https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=760+West+Genesee+Street+Syracuse+NY+13204&daddr=314+Avery+Avenue+Syracuse+NY+13204 

• With "My Location" as starting point (Automatically generates directions with no user input required).

  https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=My+Location&daddr=760+West+Genesee+Street+Syracuse+NY+13204 

• Current Location to Latitude and Longitude

  https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=My+Location&daddr=43.12345,-76.12345 

• Query search of a Latitude and Longitude. Also shows setting a default zoom level.

  https://www.google.com/maps?ll=43.12345,-76.12345&q=food&z=14 

• String search as destination

  https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=My+Location&daddr=Pinckney+Hugo+Group 

Here is a post I made that I will keep updated as there are some even newer ways to do this!

Answer 2

Use My Location instead:

https://maps.google.com/?saddr=My%20Location&daddr=myDestinationAddress 

Current Location only works on OS'es with English locale setup.

I haven't found any documentation on this. However leaving saddr blank as suggested here https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios-sdk/urlscheme will prompt the user to input start address.