How to invoke iPhone Maps for Directions with Current Location as Start Address

Question

I know it\'s possible to start the iPhone maps application by calling openURL on a google maps URL with parameters saddr and daddr wit

Answer 1

NSString* addr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=Current Location&saddr=%@",startAddr];
NSURL* url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:[addr stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
[url release];

This works but only when the iPhone/iPod language is set in English. If you want to support other languages you'll have to use a localized string to match the Maps bookmark name.