Chapter 7
Map Recipes
The Map Kit framework is an incredibly powerful and useful toolkit that adds immense functionality to the location services that iOS devices offer. The framework’s key focus is the ability to place a user-interactive map in an application, with countless other features expanding functionality, allowing for a nearly entirely customizable mapping interface.
With iOS 6, Apple made a fundamental change by replacing the Google Maps backend with a map engine of its own. With the introduction of maps in iOS 6, there were many improvements, including a new cartography that provides great-looking maps at any zoom level, better zooming experience thanks to seamless rendering, and, of course, turn-by-turn navigation.
Apple built ...
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