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.
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I'm making an iPhone location based app and I'm having trouble with the last aspect of it. I was wondering if anyone knows how to integrate a search bar that correlates with the map that we can use from MKMapView.
It's literally a search bar above the map that the user can type in an area and it will take them there.
Is this possible?
I've looked around for tutorials but I have only found how to make an app with a map view, annotations and adding callouts.
What you're looking for is geocoding - the process of turning an address in your search bar into a latitude/longitude coordinate, which you can then set the map's position to.
This question has two main answers. This answer shows how to geocode using a Google API, and this answer shows how to geocode using an Apple API.
If you're using MapKit (which uses Apple maps as of iOS 6.0), then you should probably use the Apple API (you are not supposed to use Google Maps APIs with non-Google maps).
If you're using the new Google Maps SDK for iOS, you might want to use the Google API for geocoding. Although note that the answer I've linked to is using the Google API with MapKit (as it was written back when MapKit was using Google Maps), so you would need to modify it a bit.
I'm developing a little iOS App which shows POIs on a standard MKMapKit map (from Apple). When the user select a POI, the app send a request to Panoramio to get a photo from the latitude and the longitude, like that :
http://www.panoramio.com/map/get_panoramas.php?order=popularity&set=public&from=0&to=2&minx=XXXXXXXX&miny=XXXXXXXX... etc...
The problem is that I saw today on the Panoramio ToS :
http://www.panoramio.com/api/terms.html
Section 2: API Client restrictions
You may not use the API in API Clients using map technology other than Google Maps or any photo-sharing sites.
I'm not using Google Maps API for iOS so the question is : can I use the standard MKMapKit from Apple AND show photos from Panoramio in the same app ?
If not, is there an alternative solution to get photos from GPS coordinates ?
Thanks
First off, I AM NOT A LAWYER AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE.
Disclaimer aside, use apple's CoreLocation classes to generate latitude/longitude information, and you never touch mapping software.
Geolocation and mapping are two complimentary functions that don't necessarily interact.
From what I read there, I don't see a problem with retrieving your location via the CoreLocation framework, and subsequently using that info to request map information from Panoramio.
Good luck!
Is it possible to find the current location of an iphone as an address rather than as GPS coordinates using the API?
What you're looking for is MKReverseGeocoder.
What you could do is take the GPS coordinates and put them into Google maps to get the address. It seems that Google has an API that you can interact with, but I don't have any experience with it.
Good luck!
I'm writing an iPhone application and trying to determine how to find a business name/address from a user's current GPS location (longitude/latitude). For example, if someone if using the application from inside a Starbucks, how can I find this out from their location? Is there a way to do this using mapkit or any API/Webservice?
You can do this with MKReverseGeocoder by providing a MKReverseGeocoderDelegate. It's actually quite simple.
The delegate will give you all sorts of information as an MKPlacemark.
You can get an address (MKReverseGeocoder), but you can't get a business name using the iPhone native SDK. I believe that both Google and Bing provide APIs for this, but one that I like to use (and it may have the most momentum) is Foursquare's.
I'm interested in finding out the coordinates of "any" given address and not just the current location using only CoreLocation.Framework. I do not wish to use google maps API or yahoo maps or any other third Party maps API.
Is it possible? How can I get the coordinates of any address?
Thanks
EDIT - Thanks to a comment, I realized my original answer is dreadfully out of date. At the time, in late 2009, it was a massive pain to geocode - reverse geocoding was possible via Core Location APIs, but forward geocoding was not possible until iOS 5.
But in iOS 6.1 MapKit introduced an even better API, the MKLocalSearch class. It's very easy to perform search queries for an address and then inspect the properties of the returned objects.