# Open actual google maps app to navigate to an in app pinned position
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** googlemaps, navigator
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448 "2019-06-12T19:08:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448/1 "2019-06-12T19:08:17Z")
Hello everyone,
I have a pinned place in google map **inside** my app and I would like the let the user open an **actual navigator** like _google maps_ at the position of that pin, should I use the **open link command**?
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### Author:  [@eoinparkinson](https://community.thunkable.com/u/eoinparkinson)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448/2 "2019-06-12T22:43:51Z")
you could get the coordinates then using the join block, join them to follow googles linking. Heres is a google maps link:
[https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9805714,-7.7041404,15z](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9805714,-7.7041404,15z)
Just a random location on the map near me that i picked out. Follow that format. so you could do:
get latitude and longitude, then join [https://www.google.com/maps/@{latitude},{longitude](https://www.google.com/maps/@%7Blatitude%7D,%7Blongitude)}z
thats only a guess, maybe that might not work. try it 🙂
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### Author:  [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448/3 "2019-06-17T15:00:22Z")
> [@eoinparkinson](#):
>
Thx but as suspected it’s not a pin link and it says that maps can’t open that link, pin links are much more complicate unfortunately and I don’t know how to create them ☹
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### Author:  [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448/4 "2019-06-17T15:29:46Z")
I found this solution on stackoverflow site:
"The currently accepted answer ends up adding an additional history entry in browsers at the moment as Google Maps redirects to a different URL format.
To avoid that extra entry in the browser’s history, [use the official Maps API url](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide#search-action):
```auto
https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=latitude,longitude
```
This will display a marker at the latitude, longitude location as well.
If you only want to [center the map (and not display a marker), use the map action](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/guide#map-action):
````auto
https://www.google.com/maps/@?api=1&map_action=map¢er=latitude,longitude
```"
and it worked, nice!
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/open-actual-google-maps-app-to-navigate-to-an-in-app-pinned-position/103448/5 "2024-11-08T12:13:23Z")