I'm looking for offline maps for IPhone.
For now I've discovered Route-me and CloudMade.
CloudMade doesn't have build in functionality for offline maps. There is an option to setup CloudMade to work offline but other question how to get a map you need.
Route-me works with MbTiles format. There is option to download osm file(From OpenStreetmap) and convert it to MbTiles file.
My questions: Are there sdk for IPhone that support offline maps? And how to get maps suitable for this sdk?
MapsWithMe is going to launch an offline maps API for iPhone in late Q1 or Q2 2012.
This app solves what you're looking for: http://www.maptiler.com/how-to/ios/
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I'm developing a web app with google maps and i'm now looking to transfer it to an iPhone app, probably using phonegap as it allows html5 coding for phone apps.
My question is- will google maps display ok on an iphone app?
regards,
Matt
I just made a Taxi ordering app using HTML5 (PhoneGap). Problem with Google Map api was that it was very slow. We decided to use MapKit instead. Google maps looked fine though.
Yes, If you going to use HTML, google maps should run fine on iPhone. But if going to submit to the App Store it might be rejected or its going to be slow.
I want to know if is it not at all possible to use Google maps on iOS 6 ?
I had one App prepared and now when I am using it iOS 6, It automatically takes Apple maps !
Since I dont want to use Apple maps, So I want to know if any how,Is it possible to use Google maps on
iOS 6 !
You can still google maps, but not on mapkit. The google maps has a very useful API you can use to generate the maps. You won't be able to use MKMapKit thou, but you can use google's static maps API to show the map content.
Edit: here's a new open source project with google maps tile Link and here is a link for the alternative, official, bing maps toolkit Link
The website maps.google.com works fine.
You could now. Google present iOS SDK for iOS 6. http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-new-way-to-add-google-maps-to-your.html
has anyone had any experience using BING maps on the iphone/ipad? We have an application which uses the googlemaps default map in the SDK, but we now have a requirement to use BING maps instead.
I am thinking we'd use the BING API via a UIWebView?
Has anyone else tried this? Thanks for any information!
I've used a bing API n a UIWebView, however the JS is rather costly, yet until I find and discover a BING SDK for the iPhone/iPad will probably have ot resort to that.
One other thing you can try (which I've just started down the path of), is trying to use HTML5 to cache a bunch of the is parts to it and see if that might speed the implementation up.
Hope that helps!
Apparently, the http://ibing.codeplex.com/ project on Codeplex was created with the intent of adding Bing Maps support for iOS and MacOS developers. It doesn't look to have been updated in over a year, and I don't know if it even works. Just thought I'd post it for anyone interested in checking it out.
this maybe another approach worth looking into
https://github.com/mtigas/iOS-MapLayerDemo
Recently announced and posted on the Bing Maps Blog on 5 May 2011, a new Bing Maps control/SDK is now available for iOS.
The Bing Maps iOS Control is an Objective-C control for embedding maps directly into native iOS apps. With a rich, gesture-based UI provided by Seadragon, the Bing Maps iOS Control provides support for adding pushpins and other overlays to the map, allows your device location to be displayed, and provides the ability to retrieve contextual information for a given map location.
Link to download the SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6e01a102-49ed-409e-b384-0b67521fb612
Hii friends,
i have to create a routemap for a university using maps as i preferred to use Google Maps API to develop it, as it seems easy for me with previous experience with maps API.
Does any Map library available for iPhone beyong google maps?
hey do try Route Me and open source library
http://mobileorchard.com/route-me-an-open-source-map-library-for-iphone-developers/
Does anyone know how to create simple iPhone app using bing maps?
The Bing Mobile/Bing Maps team released a new Bing Maps iOS SDK for iPhone and iPad in early May 2011. You can download the SDK here and read about the details in this blog post.
Personally I would start by reading their API and figure out which services to use
You may also find that the Bing Maps V7 AJAX control used with PhoneGap gives you a lot more power. Using this approach you get the full power of Bing Maps and the ability to then re-use your application accorss not just iPhone and iPad, but other mobile devices as well.