You can use the GEO URI Scheme “geo:latitude,longitude” specified by RFC 5870 in a link such as
<a href="geo:124.028582,-29.201930" target="_blank">Click here for map</a>
There’s also the comgooglemaps:
, which launches the Google Maps app for iOS, for example:
comgooglemaps://?center=40.765819,-73.975866&zoom=14&views=traffic
Where
center
: This is the map viewport center point. Formatted as a comma separated string oflatitude
,longitude
.mapmode
: Sets the kind of map shown. Can be set to:standard
orstreetview
. If not specified, the current application settings will be used.views
: Turns specific views on/off. Can be set to:satellite
,traffic
, ortransit
. Multiple values can be set using a comma-separator. If the parameter is specified with no value, then it will clear all views.zoom
: Specifies the zoom level of the map.
And as techtheatre said, you can use a regular Apple Maps link to trigger Apple Maps:
//maps.apple.com/?q=Raleigh,NC
Leaving off the protocol will automatically select the correct one to use, so if you wanted to have a dynamic link you could just create some conditional code that changes the link between google.com
and apple.com
depending on which system you’re on.