Iphone Coordinate fix.

Issue with iphone coordinate search on google map.

I was trying to locate a certain off-road location with the iPhone map app using coordinates given to me. To my surprise , the google map app shows a different location all together. After keying in the longitude and latitude of an off-road location, the map app will show the nearest road to the coordinate. But the coordinate will be precise if the location search is some distance away from the nearest road.

The method below would help people like me to find exact location of geo cache/off road locations.

Took me a while searching the net for the fix and found the solution. 🙂

Here’s the fix to get the exact coordinate on the iPhone map app.
Add the prefix “loc:” before the coordinates. (make sure the “l” is not in capital/uppercase)

Example:-
loc:12.1234,123.1234 this should drop the pin to the exact location of the keyed in long/lat.

Hope this helps.

Below:- example preview.