By imoreno on

Hi,
I hope this is the right place for this question.

All my nodes has a location properties, in the node display I'm displaying the node lat/long as it is representing a physical place.

What i would like to achieve is that if a user is viewing my site with a GPS enable device and click on the cordinates that will be dysplayed as a link , it will redirect the user to his installed navigation mobile app (preferably waze) or any other navigation app that he might have installed on his smart phone.

Any idea how do i achieve this task? a dedicated module? custom theme? any idea?

any help would be appreciated.

BR
Itzhak

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dgurwan’s picture

dgurwan commented

Did you find a way ? Thanks by advance

MahmoodZidan’s picture

MahmoodZidan commented

Hi there,

  • Add a new text field in your content type, make sure it supports full html.
  • Add a new rule, when "saving new content" and "updating existing content"
  • Add condition "has field" and choose the location field that you have to make that field available (It needs to support tokens and to have a token for longitude and another for latitude)
  • Add condition "has field" and choose the text field you added to content type
  • Add action "set data value" and choose the text field, then add the value <a href="waze://?ll=[latitude token],[longitude token]">Waze</a>
  • Replace the [latitude token] and [logitude token] with the appropriate tokens available via the location field that you check for in the condition
  • Save the rule

Now when you create new node or update existing node, the rule should pull the latitude and logitude from the location field and add it to the a href so it acts like a link.
For other apps like google maps you need to search for what url to use to open links in their apps.
This is a simple example for waze app link waze://?ll=32.357141,35.039816