Open Google Maps or Apple Maps in iPhone or Other Mobile Device via Browser

Question

I have links that go to Google Maps, but now since Apple updated to their own service my iPhone goes to the Google Maps website. Is there a way in HTML to show the Apple Maps link, when it's iOS6, and show the Google Maps link for all other devices. I am using ASP.NET MVC.

Answer 1

The solution is even easier than that and won't require any conditional statements:

• When clicked from an iOS6 device, links to maps.apple.com/maps?q=cupertino are opened in Apple's native mapping application.
• But on other mobile devices and computers, it redirects to Google Maps (at maps.google.com/maps?q=cupertino) instead.

So at this point, all you need to do is include the Apple Maps link and it should work as expected on non-iOS devices.

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I mentioned this in a recent post that also touches on whether the same parameters can be used.