Using Custom Tag Cards in MapsApp on iPhone

    I’m going to rest - there was a question about putting the recommended places to visit on Google-map.
    On a stationary computer - no problem - the GoogleMaps toolkit
    (My Maps) is perfect for this , but with an iPhone it's not so simple.
    You can of course open the Google map in Safari, but it’s practically inoperable (surprisingly, the layout is curved for iPhone), and the native MapsApp application is greatly reduced in terms of functionality - there are no “My cards” there (actually there’s not even a login option).
    The bookmarks built into MapsApp are hardly suitable for this. there is no way to view groups of labels (but they are suitable for a list of streets or specific objects).

    In a more general case, the iPhone does not provide the ability to generally use custom label cards.

    But, delving into Western blogs, I still found such an opportunity.

    A cherished link is a link to a .kml file entitled “View in Google Earth” located at the top of any custom map (including your own maps).
    All you need to do is just copy this link into the MapsApp search bar.
    Of course, copying is not in the literal sense (we can open the card only on a stationary computer), it must be transferred there. We won’t retype so many characters, we will use an alias for url, for example tinyurl.com (if copy / paste is not installed)

    So again, in order:
    1. open the necessary user map
    2. copy the link “View in Google Earth”
    3. convert the url through tinyurl.com/
    4. open a new url via MapsApp on the iPhone
    - voila!

    ps: of course, there is another option, save the .kml file offered by the link under any convenient name for typing on an accessible host and type in its URL in MapsApp, but then the map will naturally not be updated.

    Two tasks remained
    unsolved : 1. Now, if someone can download this .kml directly to the iPhone and open it locally, then we don’t need the Internet either (we already know how to load a map into the phone).
    2. It would be nice to be able to post tags back - iPhone> GoogleMaps


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