title: mobile html5 launch phone's native navigation app
body: <p>I'm developing a phonegap/cordova app. Is there a way to open a phone's native navigation app within the browser view? Or is there a best practice on opening native map applications from html5 apps? Or are they all platform specific?</p>
  
  <p>I've read some places that the following works for certain versions of Android</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="geo:some address here" /&gt;Navigate to here&lt;/a&gt;
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  <p>and that this works for iOS</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://maps.apple.com/?daddr=San+Francisco,+CA&amp;saddr=cupertino"&gt;Directions&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm amazed that Phonegap hasn't implemented something like this. </p>