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If I don't have any iOS device, or an Apple account, can I still send an Apple maps link somehow to friends or family? In particular, some of my elderly relati

If I don't have any iOS device, or an Apple account, can I still send an Apple maps link somehow to friends or family? In particular, some of my elderly relatives use Apple maps and last time I tried I couldn't figure out a way to send them a maps link to the place I wanted to meet them.

luxurytent 5y ago
Yes. https://maps.apple.com/?address=Florence,%20Italy&auid=12516510030195668331&ll=43.776737,11.257311&lsp=6489&q=Florence&_ext=Ch8KBQgEEJABCgQIBRADCgQIBhADCgQIChAFCgQIVRAEEiYpMNQGzOjcRUAxmTrZFxpNJkA5AMYzaOjqRUBBGIivwKGtJkBQDA%3D%3D&t=m https://maps.apple.com/?address=Florence,%20Italy&auid=12516...
- hiisukun 5y ago
  You've done the opposite! You've shared a place with me, but I can't select a location to share with my family that use iOS. If I remove your ?address component, I can't find your to browse around or "open maps" to find and generate a link. Did you generate that link on a non Apple device by just filling in the address and hoping Apple knows what it is?
  - Freak_NL 5y ago
    Apple doesn't want you to use their map unless you fully buy into their silo. But for what it's worth, it looks like you can just pass coordinates in the URL, so use OpenStreetMap to grab the coordinates (these are in the URL too), and change a / to a ,: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/43.7697/11.2584 https://maps.apple.com/place?ll=43.7697,11.2584 No idea how you're supposed to share a specific POI. Even DuckDuckGo (which weirdly enough uses Apple Maps instead of something more suitable) hides the search parameters from the URL.
    - aikinai 5y ago
      The share button works fine on any sort on location in Apple Maps, including POIs. https://maps.apple.com/?address=1-2,%20Oshiage%201-Ch%C5%8Dme,%20Sumida,%20Tokyo,%20Japan%20131-0045&auid=17634390270645965006&ll=35.710010,139.810681&lsp=9902&q=Tokyo%20Skytree&_ext=Cj0KBAgEEAoKBAgFEAMKBAgGEHMKBAgKEA4KBAgQEAEKBAgvEEgKBAhSEAYKBAhVEAsKBAhZEAYKBQikARABEiQpM9h5wOHaQUAxnGuYofF5YUA5M9h5wOHaQUBBnGuYofF5YUA%3D&t=m https://maps.apple.com/?address=1-2,%20Oshiage%201-Ch%C5%8Dm...
      - Freak_NL 5y ago
        That's the opposite of what hiisukun is asking. They want to send a link to someone who owns an Apple device. Without an Apple device, maps.apple.com doesn't have a share button as far as I can tell. There is only a big blue 'directions' button which sends you to Google Maps.

luxurytent 5y ago

Yes. https://maps.apple.com/?address=Florence,%20Italy&auid=12516510030195668331&ll=43.776737,11.257311&lsp=6489&q=Florence&_ext=Ch8KBQgEEJABCgQIBRADCgQIBhADCgQIChAFCgQIVRAEEiYpMNQGzOjcRUAxmTrZFxpNJkA5AMYzaOjqRUBBGIivwKGtJkBQDA%3D%3D&t=m https://maps.apple.com/?address=Florence,%20Italy&auid=12516...

hiisukun 5y ago
You've done the opposite! You've shared a place with me, but I can't select a location to share with my family that use iOS. If I remove your ?address component, I can't find your to browse around or "open maps" to find and generate a link. Did you generate that link on a non Apple device by just filling in the address and hoping Apple knows what it is?
- Freak_NL 5y ago
  Apple doesn't want you to use their map unless you fully buy into their silo. But for what it's worth, it looks like you can just pass coordinates in the URL, so use OpenStreetMap to grab the coordinates (these are in the URL too), and change a / to a ,: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/43.7697/11.2584 https://maps.apple.com/place?ll=43.7697,11.2584 No idea how you're supposed to share a specific POI. Even DuckDuckGo (which weirdly enough uses Apple Maps instead of something more suitable) hides the search parameters from the URL.
  - aikinai 5y ago
    The share button works fine on any sort on location in Apple Maps, including POIs. https://maps.apple.com/?address=1-2,%20Oshiage%201-Ch%C5%8Dme,%20Sumida,%20Tokyo,%20Japan%20131-0045&auid=17634390270645965006&ll=35.710010,139.810681&lsp=9902&q=Tokyo%20Skytree&_ext=Cj0KBAgEEAoKBAgFEAMKBAgGEHMKBAgKEA4KBAgQEAEKBAgvEEgKBAhSEAYKBAhVEAsKBAhZEAYKBQikARABEiQpM9h5wOHaQUAxnGuYofF5YUA5M9h5wOHaQUBBnGuYofF5YUA%3D&t=m https://maps.apple.com/?address=1-2,%20Oshiage%201-Ch%C5%8Dm...
    - Freak_NL 5y ago
      That's the opposite of what hiisukun is asking. They want to send a link to someone who owns an Apple device. Without an Apple device, maps.apple.com doesn't have a share button as far as I can tell. There is only a big blue 'directions' button which sends you to Google Maps.