Google maps API provides an option to show a bicycle layer. Is this also possible with MapKit?
Neither driving nor bicycle directions are "natively" supported in MapKit. There are numerous other questions here that cover how to construct overlays for directions by leveraging Google's map apis. I'd start there but you'll have to roll your own solution using MapKits overlay capabilities.
Sadly, no.
A lot of Google Map API features are missing from the MapKit framework, and with the latest drama between Google and Apple, it would seem that Apple is looking beyond Google to provide their mapservices.
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I have gone through the mapbox documentation and come to know that it provides offline support for both Android and IOS.
My requirement is to use direction functionality offline. Since We can download and store particular region, Can we load direction between two points?
Is mapbox provode such functionality. I have gone through the mapbox documentation and come to know about offline map features but is there any way to integrate offline direction using Mapbox ?
Direction is an ML-generated route API that is only accessible through the internet. Only 100,000 requests are free per month to use this service for free. To access the API you are required to use something like
https://api.mapbox.com/directions/v5/mapbox/driving/-122.42,37.78;-77.03,38.91?access_token=YOUR_MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
Read more about Mapbox offline, Mapbox directions
Here is Google Map Navigation for Android Mobiles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwggXqMZZ8w
Can we achieve this functionality for iphone? Is there any map api available for this which provides directions and details on GPS bases as well text (source to destination) bases?
If Yes, please provide some links regarding those.
It is against google's terms of service (relating to MapKit) to do turn by turn navigation, however you can work around it using the google maps web api and create custom code.
For speech recognition you can use this:
I used
Open Ears, which was quite easy and works really fine for text-to-speech and recognition.
OpenEars is an open source framework for performing continuous speech
recognition, text-to-speech, and language model generation in iOS. It
uses the CMU Pocketsphinx, CMU Flite and MITLM libraries.
I wan to use google map navigation and direction functionality in my iPhone App.
Is there any sample app or documents which should I refer? Is this paid functionality?
Thanks,
If you want to use Google Maps the google provides a really good API.
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For the direction it depends what you need. For the direction you head up to you can use the compass. If you want to track the direction of your movement you can do that with GPS.
If you don't want to use google maps you can use
the Route Me example (Open source iPhone-native slippy map), which already includes functions like tracking and many more.
If you're trying to find directions between two GPS coordinates or two addresses, you can use Google Directions API.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/directions/
You can have it read out xml or JSON and from there, parse it and do with it whatever you want.
I am attempting to use MapKit to create a custom map (similar to this concept http://mapwow.com/) using an image instead of the google maps image. This is so we can include the gps functionality and the pins functionality. I have looked in the documentation and there does not appear to be a standard way of doing it. Is there a way to do this using MapKit or has someone found a way to achieve something similar?
You can't currently use anything other than the Google Maps with MapKit.
Dmytro has already pointed to useful links that provide alternatives, particularly the route-me library, but there's also the CloudMade API which provides another alternative.
If you want to roll your own, you may find the CATiledLayer class helpful.
You can take a look at route-me project. It allows developer to use custom map sources such as OpenStreetMap, CloudMade etc and supports pins.
BTW CloudMade has a map style editor which might be useful for you
Can we load a Bing Map in iPhone and show Route between source and destination points thourgh some waypoints.
Check out the route-me project: route-me
This supports slippy map display of all kinds of maps (including Bing Maps) and also allows you to draw routes on top. However you need to make sure to have the right to use the maps in that way (make sure to check the license agreement with Bing Maps).
Great Blog post with resources for iPhone <-> Virtual Earth Dev
Bing SDK for iPhone