Everyone knows that Maps app can detect your home and work location and it shows you with "maps destination" feature. I am just wondering how it gets our specific location like work and home. Is it because we are stable on some places and it figures out we live here and we work there in specific time?
I'm also wondering that how can we get detected datas from the maps. Is it possible that I can use home and work locations on my app, using MapKit?
No you cannot, since it’s confidential users data. Only apples map app can use it
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I am looking for a way to get or make turn by turn navigation using Google Maps Api in swift. I've done drawing polylines from source to destination using GoogleMaps Api but still couldn't find a way to do turn by turn navigation. Is it possible?
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Yes. It is possible.
Please refer following link which is using turn by turn directions using google API.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/biznavi-gets-you-where-you/id597147565?mt=8
(see last two screen shot of iPad from itunes link)
To achieve it, you have to use Google Direction API which allows us to use upto 8 way points.
After that you will get an array of route including all turn by turn message and lat/long.
Just create a CLRegion of 100 meters (or as per your requirement.) around your current location in locationDidUpdate method. If next point of route array falls within CLRegion, just show a message received in routes array by google API.
I have made above application but it was not updated after uploading to store so it is having old UI and it is not having iPhone 5+ support. Sorry for that but you will find feature you require in this app...
I am building an application that must take user's input of a start location, and two destinations and show the route between the three. I have used google maps api in my project to add a map view, but the google directions API is not meant for user input. Should I use the google maps javascript API or add a web view. How would I go about using either?
Google Maps Javascript API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/directions#Directions
What about the option of having the user launch either google maps or maps with the direction? To do that there's a pretty good answer here: How to Open Google Map Navigation Url with Direction and Voice in iOS?
Multitasking on the phone is pretty good these days so it shouldn't cause too much user annoyance to have another app (built to directions) take over that job. The only reason I'd see to not do it that way is if your app is something like Uber, but if that's the case then there's a few other things you could do.
I am looking for Offline Google Maps in iOS (Objective c).
Is there any way to download the Map into the App when user is connected to internet, and show the downloaded map when user is offline and using the App ?
Any help will be highly appreciated.
I don't know much about it but I have heard some once talking about the same thing and using openstreetmaps instead of Google Maps.
OpenStreetMaps: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
As far as I know Google Maps doesn't implement that feature on its iOS Framework yet. But there are other Frameworks, such as Skobbler or Nutiteq that provide what you need.
It is quite easy to use Google maps as the offline mode you just need to download the map for the particular location you need to visit offline, later you can access that map anytime. I recommend you to see complete tutorial with screenshots here.
Follow some below steps:
1: Open google maps.
2: Navigate to the menu, and select offline area.
3: Select the area you want to use as area as an offline map.
4: Now tap download.
You can access this map in future for one month after which it will ask for updates.
Hey Guys I was wondering if there is a way to redirect the user back to my iOS app after they've reached their destination on Apple maps or Google maps. Thanks!
This could be possible if the app you open, is yours as well, then you could add some code there that does that. However, if you are talking about google maps / Apple maps, then that is not the case.
As far as I know, there is no api for that... iOS 9 brought the "back to..." button exactly for these situations which gives the user an easier way of switching back to the opening app.
Question, why to open another app if maps is all you need? You can always implement a map in your app and save the switching...
I've recently started to learn how to develop with Xcode and I have a question about the map and gps services.
Does anyone know what kind of resources I would have to use if I wanted to have a map in my app that shows the location of other people who use the app?
I have a general idea that each person would need an account for my app,
But would I have to put everyone's gps coordinates onto a server (SQLite?) and then constantly make the app fetch this information?
I am aiming for a similar concept that the app Called "Uber" uses where you can see taxi drivers around you and they are moving.
Yeah, you will probably need to store each user's GPS coordinates somewhere in a database. Then you can draw annotations on Apple's map view or on a map view that Google provides in their iOS helper once you fetch information from the database. I would not constantly update the user's map though. You should update it every 5 minutes, or when the user asks for it to be refreshed either through a button or some other form. Also if you plan to find the nearest user to them from the database I recommend using the Haversine Forumula (http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Haversine_formula).