Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Android App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): NA Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome URLs of any relevant observations or pages: Any Description of problem: When on an observation page under the locati…

This is now working on my Pixel 8 running Android 14, and another staff member’s Pixel 8 running Android 15. Is anyone able to test this on their device?

I checked with Chrome on Windows just to see if there was an issue there, and there is not - works as expected opening maps.google.com , so maybe just restricted to mobile/Android. I wonder if it’s something to do with the formatting of the link from iNat or maybe the Google Maps app has changed how …

That link did not work for me and behaved exactly as it would if I had clicked view on Google in an observation (opened maps but did not go to observation location). I should have thought to do this before but I just checked other websites to see if their links directed and the two I checked worked…

I can replicate with a Pixel 3a. But if I open the link in a new browser tab it works.

Same phone, maybe it’s that time where things slowly stop working to try to get us to buy newer phones…

Made a Github issue here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3801

No problem. Also we don’t mark a bug as “solved” until the fix is actually released. Making a github issue just makes a more formal report of the bug to our devs.

Having the exact same issue. Dont think it is a link format problem as if you hold down on link and select open in new tab, it works fine. Just wont do it in the parent window

[image] cthawley: or maybe the Google Maps app has changed how it handles links? has the Android GMaps app ever handled those links? i think it expects a format like this: https://www.google.com/maps/place/41.643861,-71.471444

I want to say yes as I can’t recall running into this issue in the past and I’ve used this to get locations in the field when looking for species I’d previously observed. In the last couple months Chrome (for Android) changed the way it handled new tabs; previously a new tab would open in the same …

Clicking "View on Google Maps" on an observation no longer directs to observation location in Maps (Chrome on Android)

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Clicking "View on Google Maps" on an observation no longer directs to observation location in Maps (Chrome on Android)

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