SMS to iPhone app - Google Maps

Question

is there a way to have a Map/GPS app hook into the iPhones SMS reader so that it can parse the message and map to that area?

Specifically I'm thinking of a situation where I'm looking for someone's house and they text me their address. I would (from the SMS) be able to say "Map This" and that would send the text to the GPS app and get directions from where I am to that location.

Obviously there would be some error handling for situations like misspellings, locale names ("Burger King", "Hell"), and city/state guesses, but much of this is already handled by Google Maps.

Mostly I'm wondering how to tie the App to the SMS without having to copy/paste.

Answer 1

The public SDK doesn't provide an SMS API, so you cannot hook into the SMS messages. If you are building a location sharing app, you might consider having your own messaging transport layer using the Push Notification functionality.