title: How to open a mobile device's map app when a user clicks on a link?
body: <p>I have a web app where if a user clicks on a link it should open up a map. The best solution that I can think of is to open up a new tab/window to google maps using the <code>target="_blank"</code> attribute.</p>
  
  <p>But I think that <strong>it would be best to open up the device's map app</strong> instead of google map.</p>
  
  <p>I know that you can have the user's phone app to pop when the user clicks on a phone number with the href attribute pointing to <code>tel:&lt;the phone number&gt;</code>. I am wondering if this is also possible with the map app.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to allow an anchor tag to open the mobile device's map app when the user clicks it?</p>