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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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!