I am totally confused with google maps and maps of iPhone...
i have read that iPhone uses google maps.....and also spent some time on it....
But it never display the items like location pictures, balloons etc.
EDIT
THIS is photo for of browser
and following is same place for iPhone maps
second one did not show the annotation added by people.....
(this is what i was asking for ballons or other pictures which people adds to location on oogle maps)
I want to display all those in my application....
what should i do...
if you suggests implement Google maps API, then please suggest a working link...or provide some sample code if possible.....if anybody has done it...then please mail me at yogeshkumau#gmail.com
waiting for answer......
Points of Interests(location, pictures and baloons) that you are talking about can be shown in your maps, if you acquire the license for Google maps premier api. In that case you'd have to use dynamic maps by using google's web services. However if you want to implement it using MapKit framework on iOS devices, you'd have to draw your custom POIs using core graphics.
Apple has a special agreement with Google to use their maps on their platform. The internet is packed with examples of usage of MKMapView along with annotations (pins, there're no baloons on iPhone).
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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!
I've noticed that the maps app integrated in iOS can show the traffic, but is there a way to do that using MKMapView? or that functionality only appears in that app?.
Any help please?
The data Apple uses appears to be sourced from TomTom and others. If you can find an API that provides traffic data, you can use a MKPolyline to render the data.
As far as I know you can't show the traffic information using the MK framework.
To achieve the results you want I would offer to use the third party resources, Google Maps API for example, and use UIWebView to present a customized map. Google Maps JavaScript API v3 TrafficLayer
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
I have been doing some research on using maps in iPhone applications and it looks like most of my needs can be met passing KML data into the built-in google maps application, but I cannot seem to set the same values (phone, home page, address) that are available when performing a built-in search in the maps application. Does anyone know if there is any way to set those values, or what fields are available?
UPDATE: With the advent of the 3.0 OS and the Map API, applications no longer need to pass control to the built-in map application, so this question is no longer relevant.
KML is not officially supported by Apple as of now. It's specified in the URL schemes documentation. Any URL in the ?q= parameter will be ignored.
There are few options available for iPhone developers planning to use Google Maps in their software. I've seen sample code and implementations of WebKit that translates gestures to Google Maps loaded inside it, but performance is dismal at best. Doing a static map without a lot of zooming or scrolling is pretty much the only performance-preserving option until a native API is available.
Take a look at Developing Virtual Earth iPhone Applications with Objective-C