I am trying to implement a feature to get directions from my custom mapview. The get direction feature is exactly like the one in map app in iphone. I am a bit clueless to start with this feature. Any suggestions will be apppreciated
there are many links available stating the same. You should have look at the same. Like the one given below :
Drawing a route in MapKit in iPhone SDK
To get the routes you need, use Google Directions API. If you are using Three20, you can use extThree20Google extension
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Until iOS6, it was possible to use Google Maps API with optimize waypoints parameter for showing an optimized route between many locations. The route on map was shown on UIWebView or in Safari. With iOS6 everything has changed: Apple Map Kit now uses Apple maps, so its illegal to use Google Maps API in it. Currently, MKMapItem allows to call and pass MKLaunchOptionsDirectionsModeKey. However, currently it allows to use only two locations. Is there any workaround for that?
Their is a open source class files RegexkitLite that use to find path between two places
follow this documentation for implementation.
please go through this it solve your problem.
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I would like to know if it is possible to pass an address from an SQlite data base to GPS or Google maps and have it show on a map at the press of a button. If anyone is aware of a tuturial that could help me that would be appriciated.
I would also like to get current location and show local places on map, also populated from the same database. Thanks in advance.
In order to translate address to lat/long coordinate you will have to use the Google directions API since apple is not supporting forward geocoding.
You can take a look at this API - pretty straight forward:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/directions/
for iOS 4.x and below you will need to use the Google API but in iOS 5 Apple has implemented a really nice foreword geocoding API.
In order to get directions, Google provides this nice URL:
Sample here...
How can I use the information that Google provides to get the same direction line on a MKMapView in an app?
You will have to either use a web view with a Google map, or draw on the MKMapView with overlays. There are a couple of projects on GitHub that do this:
https://github.com/kadirpekel/MapWithRoutes
https://github.com/kishikawakatsumi/MapKit-Route-Directions
In iOS 5, you can also open the maps app using an openURL call to the link you specified, and it will give you multiple possible routes to the location.
Unfortunately, the way to do it with the built-in MKMapKit is to calculate the route using some webservice then using MKOverlays to render that line. Those tools suggested by neven are probably a good first start.
I'm trying to integrated in our iOS app. Due to the bad relationship between Google & our government, Google Map is not a good idea.
We have bought a local map service company's javascript & Web Services based SDK, now we want to use it on iOS. But it seems that MapKit does not support customer tiles.
So here are my current ideas:
Use UIWebView. But I tried that map in Safari, I can't drag to move the map nor use two fingers to zoom. I think I need to call some javascripts while touch events happens.
Build a costumer UIScrollView, download map images and display them using iOS sdk. But that map service does not have API to download images, I tried to read their 200KB+ undocumented javascript to find out the relationship between location & image files, but I got no results for now.
Both the two ways could face certain legal risks. I'm not sure what the purchase contract is like.
I need suggestions about the two ways or some new ideas. Thanks guys.
There are a couple of non-Google map implementations available on github that you might be able to use (linked via CocoaControls):
NAMapKit
MRMapView
Does iPhone sdk supports route between two places on Map? I have searched many times. But not able to find any reference. Even on apple iphone development forums, there is no such thing available.
I have done this functionality using google map url. In which I have to pass source and destination latitude & longitude. I am getting the map but it is not as much good as like the iphone google map.
Can anyone help me out to do this functionality? I need to display map route between two places and also want description of the exact path to reach the destination.
No, the API has no means to do routing. You can do overlays if you can figure out the route, but that's obviously a lot more work.