Next time you have an address in an e-mail, message, comment, etc. you might notice a small globe similar to this.

This is a data detector (Heap’s newest) and if you click on it, it takes you to the location on Google Maps straight away.

Text fields in Heap are extremely smart. They of course detect things like e-mails and websites, but they also detect more exotic items such as UPS numbers and chat clients.

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