Launching Apple Maps and Google Maps with route directions

In previous recipes, we looked at detecting apps, launching them, and passing data to them in the form of a search query in Apple Maps. Now, let's look at passing something more sophisticated, say a route query. In this recipe, we're going to launch some popular mapping applications via a URL.

How to do it...

Let's go back to the app.js file in Studio and add some more code. First, we need to add a new label, so add this under your label2 definition:

var label3 = Ti.UI.createLabel({
    left: 30,
    top: 200,
    text: "Navigate from London to Edinburgh"
});

Next, we need to add the label to the window. So, add the next line of code under the code that adds the first two labels:

win.add(label3);

Now, we need to add the code that will launch the route directions. According to the Apple Maps URL scheme, it accepts the saddr and daddr parameters to define a start address and an end address. So let's add the...