Question

I’ve looked around for answers to my question with no luck, so here it is:

How can I make my iPhone app launch Google Maps while loading directions from one place to another and show the map direction tracing instead of the default menu where you get a list of directions.

Here what I am currently doing:

_destination = [NSString stringWithString:@"http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=&daddr=Place+I+want+to+go+to"];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:_destination];
NSURLRequest *requestURL = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[_mapsView loadRequest:requestURL];

This code shows by default the list of directions to follow to get to some place. The user has to press the “Maps” button to see the map of the two places, which is very annoying for what I need to do in my current app.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks

Answer 1

“http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=&daddr=Place+I+want+to+go+to&output=embed&z=15”];
The output=embed will give you the map trace and the z= is for zoom level.

Enjoy