Trying out iPhone SDK Mapkit framework

Currenly I am working on my small pet project for my iPod. I want my iPod to communicate with my Nokia device to get current location and display it.

I have not make much progress yet,  now days I don't have much free time. But I was easily able to display hard coded location on my application.

To display map and location you can use iPhone SDK's Mapkit framework. But before using it you must add framework to your project.  To add framework right click on framework-> add -> existing frameworks and then choose Mapkit framework.

Now I added instance of MKMapView to my view controller like below.

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>

@interface MapkitDemoViewController : UIViewController {
 IBOutlet MKMapView* mapView;
}

@property(retain,nonatomic) MKMapView* mapView;

@end

And initialized it in viewDidLoad function like below. I am using CLLocationCoordinate2D structure to set required cordinate and MKCoordinateSpan to specify required zoom level.  Then creating MKCoordinateRegion from above info and setting that to mapView.

We can also add our custom place marker using MKPointAnnotation, its concrete implementation for MKAnnotation protocol. Creating instance of MKPointAnnotation and setting it to mapView is quite strait forward.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
 
 mapView = [[MKMapView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
 mapView.mapType = MKMapTypeHybrid;
 
 CLLocationCoordinate2D coord = {latitude: 37.247414,longitude: 127.058278};
 MKCoordinateSpan span = {latitudeDelta: 0.001, longitudeDelta:0.001};
 MKCoordinateRegion region = {coord, span};
 
 [mapView setRegion:region];
 
 MKPointAnnotation *anno = [[MKPointAnnotation alloc] init];
 [anno setCoordinate:coord];
 [anno setTitle:@"Test"];
 [anno setSubtitle:@"Test annotation"];
 [mapView addAnnotation:anno];
  
 [self.view addSubview:mapView];
}

In case you need convert latitude and longitude between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, and seconds. Here is link which I used.

And also If you face "Couldn't register com.yourcompany.Mapkit Demo with the bootstrap server" kind of error. I used to kill my simulator and relaunch application and it worked fine then after.

That's all for now, following is output from above code.