MAP REDIRECT

Safari Extension to replace map links to be opened with the map app of your choice

Apple Maps

Google Maps

HERE WeGo Maps

Waze

Bing Maps
(Website)

Instructions how to use?

You can enable Map Redirect with the following steps

1. Download Map Redirect from the App Store

2. Go to Settings -> Safari -> Extensions. Enable Map Redirect as Safari Extension

3. Open Safari. Search for location. For example, type London

4. Click on Context menu (the symbol "aA"). Click on Map Redirect to give it access to the webpage you are visiting.

5. The extension needs to read and alter the web page to change the map links. If asked for access, you may select to allow it for one day or to always allow.

6. In the Map Redirect popup, you can select your target.
For example: select Apple Maps

7. Map Redirect will now scan the webpage for map links and convert them to be opened in Apple Maps.

8. Click on any map link

9. Map Redirect will now take you to London in Apple Maps

Note

Map Redirect requires access to the web page that you are visiting so that it can read and alter map links that it finds. For that, the extension will ask to get permission to read and alter the web page. As with other Safari extensions from Apple, it will also get access to your browsing history. The browsing history is never read for the functionality of this extension. Only the current visited web page is read and map links altered.

Map links can appear in various forms with different parameters. Map Redirect tries to detect and convert them as much as possible to your desired target. It may happen that some links to not work as expected.

In case Map Redirect does not work on a specific webpage, please contact us and let us know the URL to check and fix it. Thank you for contributing.

Map Redirect does not use any trackers of any sort, nor does it keep, track, sell, rent, or share any information on you throughout your use of the app with any third parties. All processing happens locally on the webpage you visit with the extension. No data is transfered to any central server. For any questions, feel free to contact us directly.

This extension scans visited websites for map links. When found it will convert them to the desired target that you set. For this to work, you need to enable the extension to read and alter web pages. You can do this for specific websites only in Safari Extension settings. You can also limit the access to a single day. Granting such access to read and alter web pages is required for the extension to work.

All processing happens locally on the webpage you visit. Only web links are processed. No sensitive information including passwords, phone numbers and credit cards are processed. Neither is the browsing history analyzed. No data is transferred to any central server.