I am using Map kit to display a bunch of locations and data related to it.
When I use Apple Maps I can see that locations have related images provided by Yelp.
Does map kit provide a way to access those images? Is there any way to obtain images from a respective location??
Thanks.
Those images are not part of the SDK and you can't use them within your app directly, but you can use Yelp API to get business information, including images. Check https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v3/business for more information.
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I'm afraid this is a general question, no code as such just yet.
I've built my app to date with Apple MapKit, and it is generating locations (strings & coordinates). I don't want to rebuild this with Google Maps SDK for iOS.
I'm looking to use Firebase as the back-end and they have some useful analytics when passing in Google Place IDs.
My question is therefore whether you can convert coordinates into Google Place IDs and therefore what my best option would be to achieve this?
It would obviously best if this did not involve using the SDK and I could somehow use an online API to convert the coordinates to place IDs...
Thoughts?
Yes if you have address of coordinate then use in below api and you able to get the PlaceID
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&key=YOUR_API_KEY
check more detail in below link
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro#geocoding
I was trying to display a MKMapView showing all the museums in a city. I haven't understood if this is a built in feature of the maps or I need to get the data somewhere else. Online I was seeing an example of government databases providing the information and location and then this was being added to the map. Does the map have this feature built in?
Nope, this is not built-in feature of the map (in apple map). But you have to make a filter (Query) that can fetch response what you needs (response will be in JSON format) and manipulate it in your map as a Annotaion.
I'm using MapBox for a iPad app and we want to use various image sources for the map imagery.
Is there a way to get google map tiles and show them in MapBox?
We could construct the url's to get the tiles directly but google will block you if you do this, because we wouldn't be using the official API.
Is there any other option to solve this problem?
It is technically possible, but Google's terms of service don't allow display of their tiles outside of their own software frameworks.
I'm currently developing an app that needs to display a map of where the user is currently located in the world. For technical reasons, I need to access every map tiles as an image (png/jpg) before going in the rendering pipeline.
I have tried 3rd party services like MapBox, MapQuest as they have a REST api that enables me to receive a png/jpg of a tile according to the requested location. The issue here is that MapBox isn't free, so I was wondering if there was a way to access the tiles that Apple provides in it's maps app. What service are they using under the hood? Would I be violating some terms of use by going with this approach.
Please note that using some integrated "do-it-all" UIMapView is not an option for me, I need the image directly.
Thanks
Google has a REST API. You can see the details here https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/?csw=1. It does cost money if you go over the usage limits.
I manually download Map Tiles for my app, but I don't use MKMapKit. I have my own MapView and I am using a combination of MapBox, Thunderforest, CalTopo, OSM, and map tiles that I generated and host on AWS. All of them have a pretty easy map tile URL scheme, but you do have to pay for most of them.
I've been checking out the new Google Maps SDK for iOS that allows you to bypass Apple Maps for map related features in your app!
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios/intro
The SDK seems fairly easy to use, but i want to know:
If it is possible to use the SDK (are there API's) to download individual Map tiles?
If so, how?
Ive looked at the documentation given on their developer portal and it says the following:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios/map
The key class when working with a Map object is the GMSMapView class. GMSMapView handles the following operations automatically:
Connecting to the Google Maps service.
Downloading map tiles.
Displaying tiles on the device screen.
Displaying various controls such as pan and zoom.
Responding to pan and zoom gestures by moving the map and zooming in or out.
Responding to two finger gestures by tilting the viewing angle of the map.
It seems like the downloading of the tiles happens automatically, or are there API's that allow manual access to the tiles?
If not, any workarounds would also help!
The documentation and header files do not indicate any way to download individual map tiles.
Even if you would find a workaround, you would not be allowed to use it. See clause 10.1.1 (a) in the Terms of Service:
No Access to Maps API(s) except through the Service. You must not access or use the Maps API(s) or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate. For example, you must not access map tiles or imagery through interfaces or channels (including undocumented Google interfaces) other than the Maps API(s).