This is more of an app that can consume OGC services instead of an API, but James reviews iExtMap here: http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/08/19/iextmap-for-ios/
David. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Michael Weisman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Apple's MapKit framework can display tiles over the Google tiles in an > MKOverlayView in iOS4. > > If you have a paid iPhone Developer account, take a look at the > Mapping/Location talk from the last WWDC [1]. They show a demo app that > consumes a gdal-generated tile-cache (stored on the device) and shows it on > top of Google's tiles in a standard MKMapView, so the MapKit Framework can be > used to control overlaying vector data on top it it, just like Google Maps. > The complete code for the app is in the WWDC demo code package that is > unfortunately only available to registered iPhone developers. It does not > look like it made it into the non NDA'd MapKit samples like the other demos > from the talk. > > Also, I'm assuming you want to do this to have your maps available off-line? > The tile caches can get very large very fast, so if at all possibly, I would > recommend loading them from a tile server rather than from the device. > > [1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2010/ > > Cheers. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Weisman > [email protected] > @mweisman > > On 2010-08-27, at 1:35 PM, Kevin Elliott wrote: > >> Hey geo-friends, >> >> Is anyone aware of a very simple GIS API for iPhone? I'd like to create a >> very simple polygonal map of the world, and some layers of the countries, >> states/subregions, and cities. I do not want a Google Map or OSM, I want >> custom drawn maps. Doing this on the web has been really easy, especially >> for making quick mashups to fill in regional boundaries with different >> shades of color to represent meaningful data. I am making an app that could >> benefit from being able to display some data in real time on this custom map >> by filling in polygons. >> >> I know that route-me can handle custom map tiles, but I do not want to run a >> tile server for this effort, as it should all be on device if at all >> possible. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Kevin Elliott >> [email protected] | http://kevinelliott.net | http://twitter.com/kevinelliott >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
