What function would be able to hide local landmarks when browsing a confined region via Apple Maps API ?
There is a property called showsPointsOfInterest for MKMapView, you can set it to NO to hide icons and labels for restaurants, schools, and other relevant points of interest.
showsPointsOfInterest is deprecated.
With IOS 13 you have the option to filter: here a example to show no items on the map
mapView.pointOfInterestFilter = .some(MKPointOfInterestFilter(including: []))
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Good afternoon, who once worked with heremap sdk premium for ios. How do I make it possible to click on the NMAMapMarker? What they have written in the documentation does not describe it, but maybe I'm wrong.
there are different option available for NMAMapMarker to use.
This represents a marker used to display an icon on a geographical position on a map. The map handles proper placement of icons on the screen as well as panning and rotation.
+mapMarkerWithGeoCoordinates:
+mapMarkerWithGeoCoordinates:icon:
+mapMarkerWithGeoCoordinates:image:
coordinates
icon
draggable
draggingOffsetEnabled
anchorOffset
-initWithGeoCoordinates:
-initWithGeoCoordinates:icon:
-initWithGeoCoordinates:image:
-setAnchorOffsetUsingLayoutPosition:
-setSize:forZoomLevel:
-setSize:forZoomRange:
-resetIconSize
Check for more details : https://developer.here.com/documentation/ios-premium/3.18/api_reference_jazzy/Classes/NMAMapMarker.html#%2Fc:objc(cs)NMAMapMarker(im)initWithGeoCoordinates.
Please revert with your code implementation in case of any further concern.
Hi i have an MapView in My Project i need to remove all the labels Annotations, places from MapView. Looks like Plain mapView
i tried the Following Code its working fine but still i getting some building details, Street names and all i want that also to be removed only User Location Can be Visible
here is the code:
[mapView setShowsPointsOfInterest:NO];
the above code working fine and removed default location icons from mapKit but not removing all Icons and Label, how to remove all default icons and label names from MapKit
starting with iOS 11, you can set
mapView.mapType = .mutedStandard
This removes distracting details from the map.
Apple uses this type of map, when they want to emphasise a transit route and everything else should be in the background without distracting.
Starting with iOS 13 you have even more fine grained control:
Using MKMapKit.pointOfInterestFilter you can include or exclude specific categories of points of interest.
So if you're making an App 'Best restaurants in my city', your app has its own restaurant annotations, you remove the restaurant category from Apple's point of interests, but all other POI categories are just fine for you.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/mkmapview/3143417-pointofinterestfilter?language=objc
Starting with iOS 16 most APIs described above are deprecated, but the ideas remain the same.
Now you set MKMapView.preferredConfiguration to a subclass of class MKMapConfiguration. These subclasses are
MKStandardMapConfiguration
MKHybridMapConfiguration
MKImageryMapConfiguration
Each of these classes have exactly those parameters that make sense for the type of map.
For example, MKImageryMapConfiguration shows no POIS and no roads, so it makes no sense that this class has parameters like pointOfInterestFilter or showsTraffic.
Classes MKStandardMapConfiguration and MKHybridMapConfiguration now have a parameter pointOfInterestFilter that has been in MKMapKit.pointOfInterestFilter in earlier iOS versions.
Old deprecated mapView.mapType = .mutedStandard is now init parameter emphasisStyle of class MKStandardMapConfiguration
P.S.
Please also have a look at the other answer of #Grimxn. Bringing your own overlay is much effort but a valid alternative.
It seems to be a bit of a kludge.
Firstly, you replace the map with an overlay of your own...
self.mapView.insertOverlay(underlay, at: 0, level: MKOverlayLevel.aboveLabels)
This can be anything. If you want to use Google Maps, or Open Street Map, you can, like this:
let url = "http://mt0.google.com/vt/x={x}&y={y}&z={z}"
//let url = "http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
let underlay = MKTileOverlay(urlTemplate: url)
underlay.canReplaceMapContent = true
alternatively, if you just want blank, give it a default layer:
let underlay = MKTileOverlay()
underlay.canReplaceMapContent = true
The parameter level: allows you to specify whether your background obscures just their background map, or the background & roads or the background & labels, but NOT above everything. The documentation says:
MKOverlayLevel.aboveLabels
case aboveLabels = 1
Place the overlay above map labels, shields, or point-of-interest
icons but below annotations and 3D projections of buildings.
I can't get that to work for the default MKTileOverlay() - it seems to do the same as the alternative .aboveRoads - i.e. it hides all of the map including roads, but not labels. When you specify one of the external overlays (e.g. google) - they DO replace the labels. Probably a bug, so the final step, to completely obliterate the labels is
self.mapView.mapType = .satellite
This removes the labels, and your overlay is hiding the satellite map. Not neat, but not difficult, either.
In case anyone is coming back to this, as of writing this, if you want literally just a map and road names, no points of interest, just use
mapView.pointOfInterestFilter = .excludingAll
I'm using Mapbox 2.1.2 where I need to set a custom image for the user location annotation. This is not a problem to implement both in MapKit or GoogleMaps but how do I deal with this using Mapbox?
If this is not possible, how can I track the user's location? I've already tried to add MGLPointAnnotation objects on location update. But then I have to have a cache of annotations and clear it on adding a new, most recent one which also leads to a "flash" ugly effect.
Background on customizing the user location annotation: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/issues/2272
The best way to do this right now is to follow the guidance there, which is to customize the MGLUserLocationAnnotation class in the source code (the SDK is open source).
As of Mapbox iOS SDK v3.4.0, you can provide your own user location annotation view that contains a UIImageView. In your MGLMapViewDelegate, implement the -mapView:viewForAnnotation: method to check whether the annotation is equal to the MGLMapView’s userLocation; if so, return a new MGLUserLocationAnnotationView that contains a UIImageView. There’s a work-in-progress example of customizing the user dot in this pull request.
In WatchKit, the documentation for WKInterfaceMap specify that:
"Tapping the map launches the Maps app on the user’s Apple Watch and
displays the corresponding location.
However: I want to show multiple map annotations on the map - is there a way to specify which map annotation will be displayed in Maps.app when the map is tapped?
There is currently no visibility as to exactly what happens when Apple Watch transitions from a WKInterfaceMap to Apple's native Maps application.
Try the WatchKit Developer Forums, exactly the right place for this question!
Currently in WatchOS 2 (at least), tapping on a WKInterfaceMap will open up the Watch's Maps app with the option the get directions to the location that was at the centre point of your WKInterfaceMap. When viewing these directions to this location it will be marked with a Red Pin annotation.
None of your custom annotations will be displayed in the Watch's Maps app.
You can use following methods to add multiple annotations. As per Apple documentation, currently only 5 annotations can be displayed on watch app's map
addAnnotation:withPinColor
addAnnotation:withImageNamed:centerOffset:
addAnnotation:withPinColor:
Here is a sample code, which displays 2 annotations:
CLLocationCoordinate2D mapLocation1 = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(37.787730, -122.403370);
CLLocationCoordinate2D mapLocation2 = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(37.794873, -122.397892);
//
MKCoordinateSpan coordinateSpan = MKCoordinateSpanMake(0.1, 0.1);
// Other colors include red and green pins
[self.map addAnnotation:mapLocation1 withPinColor: WKInterfaceMapPinColorPurple];
[self.map addAnnotation:mapLocation2 withPinColor: WKInterfaceMapPinColorRed];
[self.map setRegion:(MKCoordinateRegionMake(mapLocation, coordinateSpan))];
I am looking for a way to implement a custom map style in iOS 7, just like you can do with Google Maps. I have found some posts saying that this is not possible with MapKit, but they are all posted a while back. To clarify, by style I am talking about custom colors and preferably also fonts. Example of custom Google Map style below.
(source: servendesign.com)
I would really prefer using MapKit for performance reasons, but if it is not supported I am open to using other frameworks as well. The ones that I have seen are MapBox and Cloudmade, and of course the Google Maps SDK.
Is there a way of doing it with MapKit? If not, what is the best way to go?
MKMapView also offers the possibility to use custom tile overlays. Openstreetmap has a great list of tile servers you could use to get a custom map. Of course there is always the possibility to create your own tile overlay set. The process is described in the Openstreetmap wiki here.
A possible implementation in Swift could look like this:
1. Import MapKit
import MapKit
2. Add overlays to map
let overlayPath = self.mapViewModel.overlayURL
let overlay = MKTileOverlay(URLTemplate: overlayPath)
overlay.canReplaceMapContent = true
self.mapView.addOverlay(overlay)
3. Conform to MKMapViewDelegate
class ViewController: UIViewController, MKMapViewDelegate { ... }
4. Implement delegate method to use the correct renderer to display the tiles
func mapView(mapView: MKMapView, rendererForOverlay overlay: MKOverlay) -> MKOverlayRenderer {
guard let tileOverlay = overlay as? MKTileOverlay else {
return MKOverlayRenderer(overlay: overlay)
}
return MKTileOverlayRenderer(tileOverlay: tileOverlay)
}
In the above example overlayURL is taken from the tile server list found on openstreetmap: OpenstreetMap Tile Servers.
For example if you would like to use the stamen map (which has a watercolor style) your url would look like:
let overlayURL = "http://tile.stamen.com/watercolor/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg"
If you are searching for a dark-mode map you probably go best with Carto Dark: http://a.basemaps.cartocdn.com/dark_all/${z}/${x}/${y}.png.
See that the above URLs has no SSL support (HTTP). Therefore you will need to allow insecure HTTP requests to this specific URL by adding the App Transport Security Settings in your Info.plist. For further information have a look at this link.
MKMapView does not expose the properties you're interested in customizing. The Google Maps SDK does support custom colors and icons for markers, which may be sufficient for your purposes.
Edit: Stay tuned for iOS 11, which may offer this level of customization.
Another option is MBXMapKit, which is a MapBox library built atop Apple's MapKit, though it's geared for MapBox layers. It is separate from the MapBox iOS SDK, which is a ground-up rewrite meant to work like MapKit but not based on it.