looks like the URL to 'capture' requests from an app via OpenUrl() and show the Maps app is now:
http://maps.apple.com/maps?q=cupertino https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/MapLinks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007894-SW1 OT: interestingly, there is still documentation for the youtube URL scheme :) https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Articles/YouTubeLinks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007895-SW1 On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Jason Awbrey <ja...@awbrey.net> wrote: > I don't believe that they are still capturing maps.google.com - when I > click on map links I get taken to Google maps in Safari > > however, I agree that the new map is a huge step back - I was in San > Antonio a few weeks ago while running the beta, and the maps app kept > insisting the nearest Sea World was in Orlando > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Alex White <alexwhit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The apple maps are sub-standard all my windows users (over 1000 of them) >> that use the iPhones and iPads that have upgraded to IOS6 have taken their >> devices into the apple stores and got replacement units as the mapping >> component is completely useless and there seems to be no way to take the >> devices back to IOS6. >> >> My users use the street view function a huge amount and need complete >> mapping and street view of the whole of london, the Apple mapping has major >> gaps in it. >> >> Whilst there is apps that do this job, it is completely out of order that >> apple have hijacked maps.google.com and map it to somewhere else, if >> they are not going to use maps.google.com for their component then they >> should release the URL so that it can be used in safari. >> >> This upgrade has gone down very badly in my user base, many of the guys >> that were going to upgrade their phones are not going to now. >> >> ATB >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> On 24 Sep 2012, at 10:20, Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <r...@xamarin.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Chris_M <kungfuchri...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> I am very close to having my first app ready to submit to Apple -- except >>> that I haven't looked at any iOS related stuff yet. Now I'm kind of >>> scared. >>> >>> I display a Google Maps view in the app itself and there's also >>> functionality to launch the external Maps app. Will either of these work >>> in >>> iOS 6? >>> >> >> The API hasn't changed at all, you do it the exact same way you used to >> with the Google maps and in iOS6 it'll use the Apple maps. >> >> In other words: you don't have to do anything at all to make the Apple >> maps work if you already have the Google maps working. >> >> Rolf >> >> >>> >>> Reading all of the problems with Apple's new Maps app, I'm not really >>> super >>> excited about the prospect of switching to it instead. >>> >>> If I do have to switch to Apple Maps for iOS 6 support, I assume I'll >>> have >>> to use code to detect the OS version and will be able to stick with what >>> I >>> got for iOS 5 and earlier, and then implement the code to use Apple Maps >>> separately if the user is using iOS 6? >>> >>> (I looked and didn't see this addressed elsewhere, so if it has come up >>> already I apologize.) >>> >>> >>> --Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Maptastrophe-tp4657170.html >>> Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MonoTouch mailing list >>> MonoTouch@lists.ximian.com >>> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MonoTouch mailing list >> MonoTouch@lists.ximian.com >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MonoTouch mailing list >> MonoTouch@lists.ximian.com >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > MonoTouch@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > >
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