Creating an iPhone Card Application

Question

How to create a map application for Iphone. I know that UIwebView can be used to display a map. But is there a native API available on the iPhone (which uses its own iphone card app)?

Answer 1

Look at the simple structure from CloudMade:

http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/iphone-api

I use it in a simple application that I created to find your position. This is in the App Store under PinDrop in the navigation section.

The structure is really rough, but it worked for what I needed. When 3.0 comes out, I will update to use Google maps. Before that it works.

Answer 2

I think you have to wait until iPhone OS 3.0 gets access to the map set structure.

Answer 3

The iPhone CloudMade library quickly started working, allowing you to add geocoding and routing to your iPhone apps, but admittedly quite simple. Many developers who use CloudMade services, such as customized maps, geocoding, and routing, use the Route-M library. Route-Me is an open source library that uses basic animation to add zooming, panning, and other effects. It has been used in iPhone applications such as Trails and [Offmaps] [2] - both applications use the CloudMade platform with the Route-Me library.

By combining CloudMade routing, geocoding, and custom maps with the large Route-Me library, you can create applications that are much more advanced than anything you can do with MapKit.

Answer 4

Creating a map currently involves viewing frameworks such as Ninja Map . The Map Kit structure may supersede this, depending on what you want to do ...

Answer 5

You really have to use the Cloudmade infrastructure, as there are several license issues with MapKit from Apple, Google and TomTom (which owns the Googles maps). This has specific drawbacks, so MapKit does not have forward geocoding.

But Cloudmade has published many tutorials on how to use the framework there. It's not that complicated, and you can use MapKit with Cloudmade to update missing features in MapKit.