I'm kicking an app idea today, trying out the Location Map, which I last played with a year or so. My iPhone 5 (running IOS 8.3) pulls up the maps OK, shows my location and goes into driving directions, which is enabled. It offers to open the native maps application as expected when I click the 'i' button. So far so good. The problem is that the map start field is not using my location. It is blank. If I enter my address (there is a drop down list available), the map app objects, saying cannot provide directions to and from the same location. I remember a bug a couple of years ago where the start and end addresses were reversed somewhere - this may be similar? I'm pretty sure it is using apple maps.

I think I have the code in my spot finder plugin

I'll try and check it out. I'm beginning to find I can read some code, albeit very slowly lol. The location plug-in used to work OK, something happened recently - might whatever happened have affected Spot finder?

https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=4175A4651369824B6743BA4&fid=06DB0BCB08E2222&sortColumn=FT.id&sortUpDown=DESC&currentPage=1 For testing, after you enter the address (Because it will overwrite it) enter geocoordinates, and it'll work ok. Out here, street addresses mean nothing; geocoordinates mean everything. Cheers! -- Smug

So, to bring this up to date, it seems that what is absolutely necessary is to implement the permission requirements from iOS 8 onwards https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/115208762/iOS8LocFix.pdf

It's also worth mentioning that the behaviour for a map appears to be different between a phone with iOS 8, which seems to pass device location and destination to the map and iOS 9, which doesn't identify the device location to the map.