Reverse Geocoding issue with funny characters in addresses

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I’m using Reverse Geocoding to get the address of the user so I can add it to a URL to open the native Maps app on iDevices for driving directions.

The problem is when the user address have spaces and non english letters (éÉåäöÅÄÖ etc…) and uppercase letters then the URL breaks and won’t open the Maps app. It’s not always, but most of the time.

Does anyone have a good solution to this?

At first I thought of using just Lat/longitude but that doesn’t work for driving directions with the Maps app.

Then string manipulation and replace any space with %20 and letters with eEaAoO, but depending on where the user’s from I can’t possibly cover them all.

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#2

You can use just lat/long for driving directions but it doesn’t look as accurate on the map as if there is an actual address.

where destination is the lat/long of the destination and currentLocation is users lat/long.

system.openURL("http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr="..destination.."&saddr=" ..currentLocation)

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