Every address in Mucka is tappable. Tap the work address on a job, a client's address, or a property, and your phone's maps app opens on it, ready to drive.
You can also just ask: "give me directions to my next job" and Mucka works out the address and gives you a Directions button. It's the job's address — the property the work is at — not the customer's own address, so a landlord's or an agent's job takes you to the rental, never to their office. When you're headed to a job it'll also ask whether to mark you as travelling while it's at it — say no and you just get the route.
What Mucka sends your maps app
Mucka sends the house number, street and postcode, like 6 Orchard Way, BS5 9ZZ, and leaves out the rest. Maps apps treat every word you give them as a hint, and they're happy to let a house name or a town outvote the postcode. A farm with the same name as one in the next valley, or a new-build street the map barely knows, can send you somewhere else entirely.
If the address has no house number, just a name like Rose Cottage, Mucka sends the postcode on its own. That gets you to the right postcode, and the name on the job sheet does the rest. If somebody has pinned the way in on that property, you're taken to the pin instead, which is better still.
On Android
Mucka hands the address to Android and lets your phone decide. If you've set a default maps app, that's what opens. If you haven't, Android asks you which one and offers to remember it.
That means it works with whatever you actually use, whether that's Google Maps, Waze or something else.
On iPhone
iPhones have no equivalent "default maps app" setting, so Mucka asks you once. The first time you tap an address you'll get a short list:
- Apple Maps (built in)
- Google Maps
- Waze
Pick one and Mucka remembers it. Pick Google Maps or Waze and it opens the app if you've got it installed, or the website if you haven't.
Changing it later
On the mobile app, open Settings, go to the Device tab, and find Directions. Tap Change and pick a different one. It takes effect straight away, on that phone. With the new look switched on, the screen is called This phone and the row is Directions open in: tap it to pick.
The setting is per-device on purpose. Plenty of owners run Waze in the van and Google Maps at the desk, and each engineer picks their own on their own phone.
Common gotchas
- A maps app you've uninstalled. If you picked Waze and later removed it, tapping an address opens the Waze website instead. Change the setting to fix it.
- It lands in the wrong place. Check the house number, street and postcode on the property. That's what the maps app is sent, so a wrong postcode is a wrong destination. Correct it in Mucka and it'll be right next time.
- No postcode saved. Without one, Mucka hands over the address as written and the maps app does its best with it. Add the postcode to the property.
- On desktop. Tapping an address opens Google Maps in a new browser tab. There's no app to hand off to.