@Scoob

I am working on it. I will post an update to this blog later today

Simpler way to get just the map showing up:

To simply get just the map showing up on the iPhone, create a new iPhone project using any template of your choice.

In the Frameworks folder, add the MapKit.Framework. This is a very important step and the one most likely to overlook.

Go to the NIB file where you want your map to show up. In Interface Builder, drag a MapView object from the Library (under Data Views). Size the MapView object appropriately.

Back in XCode, “Build and Run,” and you will see the map in the iPhone simulator.

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Nice walkthrough, although I have a problem when I am trying out your code. It gives me an error like this :

Line Location Tool:0: “.objc_class_name_MKMapView”, referenced from:

Do you have any idea what this means? Which SDK did you use btw? I am using v 3.0 as I intend to embed a map in another applications.

Hi ,

Thanks for the post which u made , but i am facing the following reference error , it would be greatly appreciable if any one can find the solution for these kind of errors .

Thanks in advance.

.obc_class_name_MKMapView, referenced from :
literal-pointer@_objc@_cls_refs@

hi, i have downloaded .zip file and opened the project but i am getting following error:
error: There is no SDK with specified name or path ‘Unknown Path’
pls. help me out.

thanks

Is it possible to place pins on the map? I’ve looked around, but haven’t seen a good tutorial on how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, can you tell me if an internet connection is needed for use this Framework?

Thanks!

@LakshmilKanth Try this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1987699&tstart=0

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May be a stupid question (I’m a beginner programmer), but when you say “add in a few more parameters” :

mapView.showsUserLocation=TRUE;
mapView.mapType=MKMapTypeHybrid;

Where in the code does this actually go? I have put it in the viewdidload method but don’t see the same as your screen prints (I’m still getting the standard map, not showing ‘Apple HQ’):

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
mapView = [[MKMapView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
mapView.showsUserLocation=TRUE;
mapView.mapType=MKMapTypeHybrid;
[self.view insertSubview:mapView atIndex:0];

}

I’m using the simulator, so would I expect to see what you have shown in your example screen shots in this tutorial?

Thank you!

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Is there any way to display path(direction) for two location in built in Google maps of SDK 3.0 ? Thanks in Advance.

I’m receiving an error: ‘mapView’ undeclared on this line: mapView=[[MKMapView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];

How do I declare this?

Thanks!

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I’m very new to programming and I’m having trouble on the second part (MainViewController.m). What do you mean by “initialize and add it as a subview”? I’ve copied the code and I’m getting an error when I try to build and go.

Thanks gavi for the tutorial, but I would be helpful if you mentioned how we could add a framework to a project .

Thanks @Vimal Goel for the hint about the map framework

A quick way to add MapKit.framework to your project: Control-click on Frameworks -> Add -> Existing Frameworks and choose the MapKit framework.

In order to add the mapview to the uiview why do we need to use “insertSubView” method???
Can’t we use addSubview???

we’ll i found another way to add the mapview —

self.view = mapView //where self is a view controller and mapView is MapView;

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Hi, how do you create your own map for an iphone app. I am a new iphone developper and i have my map as a picture but I would like to add annotations and a key for the map too. So how do I do that with iphone SDK 3.0. This is not a Google map it is just like a sketch for a small location. Thank you.

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Hi,

I’m new to iphone development. I’m trying out your mapkit tutorial and it’s working pretty well for me. I was hoping you can point me in the right direction for something….I want to display anotations based on a location name and city. (without prior knowledge of the coordinates) is that possible?

Thanks in advance