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The geo: URI scheme doesn’t seem to work for me on the iphone safari browser. Has anyone had any luck implementing this? Here is an example piece of code:
<a href="geo:39.555551,-82.814171;">Test</a>
The above works on android phones… are there any alternatives to this? Thanks for the help!
The
geo:scheme, being relatively new, isn’t supported by any builtin apps on iOS. (It’s a good idea for a feature request, though.)One alternative (supported all the way back to iPhone OS 1.0) is to use a Google Maps URL. For example: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.331044,-122.029202 — this will get automatically redirected to the Maps application. (I dunno if or how this might change with the forthcoming non-Google-backed Maps in iOS 6, though.)
It’s also possible to register a third-party app to handle URL schemes not used by system apps, so you could create your own
geohandler if that’s useful to you.