I'm using MapKit to load a MKMapView and loading KML files to display a route with polylines between the designated points. I've seen a similar Android app using Google Maps that animates the route and runs it from start to finish.
I've been through the MapKit Framework documentation and I can't find anything that suggests I can do the same thing using Apple Maps.
If I'm wrong and it is possible I would be grateful for any information
The only way to resolve this issue is import the Google maps framework, which works perfectly well alongside MKMapkit.
There is a facility within Google Maps that enables the developer to animate their route.
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There is an app, that should provide turn by turn navigation. At the moment it uses Google Map SDK and I was able to draw a route using Google Directions API and GMSPath using tutorial from AppCoda. Problem is it looks kind of ugly - simply thin blue line.
My questions is it possible create turn by turn navigation inside an app using Google Maps?
I think Google does provide this option but not for free.
Have a look at this:
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ridesharing/
So basically I want to add navigation to my app, but I don't want to launch the Google Maps app for iOS and then return the user to my app, but I want to open up the navigation inside a ViewController, much like you can do with regular maps using MapViews for Google Maps.
Is this possible? I can only find resources on how to launch the Google Mapps app for iOS outside your own app, and it's not exactly the best sentence to search for either.
Just thought of a possible solution: Open the Google Maps Navigation from the Web in WebView...should work, right?
You could do that, if you really need to use Google Maps; however, this will probably look bad. A MKMapView is much easier to use, but it uses Apple's maps. If you want to use it, take a look at the CoreLocation and MapKit frameworks.
If you want to use Google Maps in your app, just implement Google Maps iOS SDK.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/ios/start
In one of my iOS application I want to show an offline indoor map with navigation. I searched it in google and then I found solutions like routeme, mapbox etc .But the thing is I have to do this without any external libraries for that I did a sample project using mktileoverlay and it is working fine with that sample map. My problem is how I will make tiles for my indoor map with the proper structure and how to do navigation with that map. Thanks in advance.
I'm working on my first IOS app and I need to display a map where the user can see their current location and several locations specified by me in the form of pins or so.
Would also be cool if they could immediately plan a route to these locations.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
You display a map on iOS with MKMapKit, an official library that allows you to add Apple Maps to your app. You can also set pins (MKPointAnnotation) and do routing (MKDirections API) with that.
There is a Ray Wenderlich tutorial covering the basics of MapKit here:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/21365/introduction-to-mapkit-in-ios-6-tutorial
Let's say I have a custom fictional map create with Google maps. It is not a real place, but a custom one. Kind of like a map of the lord of the rings location, mordor or something. Working as a Google map on browser, with pins, custom image and all. Is there a way to import this to iOS MapKit to show in my own iOS app?
You could try to export the google map in KML format and then use a library to parse the KML data and view it in a MKMapView.
This seems to be useful: http://kmlframework.com