title: Open the iPhone map application via link to Google maps with KML as query
body: <p>How does one force the iPhone map application to open when the link on a web page goes to maps.google.com/?q=<a href="http://example.com/mapdata.kml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://example.com/mapdata.kml</a>?</p>
  
  <p>If I open the map application and specifically put <a href="http://example.com/mapdata.kml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://example.com/mapdata.kml</a> in the query box, all the data is loaded correctly. But if I use <a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=http://example.com/mapdata.kml" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://maps.google.com/?q=http://example.com/mapdata.kml</a>, the map application loads but no data is loaded and nothing is in the query box.</p>
  
  <p>The typical queries work, like q=cupertino or q=[latitude,longitude]. It seems to be the kml link that's broken.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone gotten this to work? Is this supported? Do you have to URI encode the query?</p>