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10.4: Replace the phone book widget's mapping service
Authored by: oxjox on May 01, '05 02:27:43PM

Works great!!

Can you do the same thing with Address Book?!!



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10.4: Replace the phone book widget's mapping service
Authored by: El Payo on May 04, '05 09:45:28PM
Actually, no. Apple has offloaded the lookup in the Address Book app to a server they host:

http://si.info.apple.com/services/addressbook.xml

Take a look at the source of that page and you'll see they do a lot of parsing of addresses for multiple countries and other code fu. The link to that site is contained in the file found inside Address Book at:
~/Applications/Address\ Book.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ABTextActions.strings
I tried simply replacing the URL there with what I thought would be a Google maps query, but I'm not sure how to properly format the URL so it will use whatever parameters/variables that Apple assigns to the address.

Anyone else want to poke around and try, or should we report use of MapQuest as a bug and get them to rebuild their page to use Google Maps?

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