Find Places
Searches for nearby businesses and returns them as results. Pass a location as input to search near there.
Explore nearby landmarks
Takes a location as input or your current location and searches for nearby destinations noted as Landmarks, then opens your selected option in Maps.
Scripting Actions
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Open in Maps
Opens your choice of Maps, Google Maps, or Waze and searches for the location, place, or text that was passed into the action.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Explore%20nearby%20landmarks
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Explore%20nearby%20landmarks
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Explore nearby landmarks”
end tell
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