hi, i want to create a navigation/map based app for my school also including indoors navigation. Is it possible to create my own map using existing apple libraries? can anybody suggest documentation, tutorials, books, videos, or even a hint of how to implement that? i worked a little bit with location and map kit but it seems that i can't achieve that using them, or am i wrong? thanks!
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I seem to recall an article on MR about an indoor mapping SDK (not from Apple,) not too long ago, but I can't find it now.
Did a google search and all I found was this:
http://www.micello.com/developer/sdk
The JS API might be usable in a UIWebView...
Did a google search and all I found was this:
http://www.micello.com/developer/sdk
The JS API might be usable in a UIWebView...
In a word, no.
Apple's map kit does not let you use your own map contents.
There are third party libraries that do mapping with arbitrary map libraries.
There is one called route-me, hosted on Google.
Beware that generating map data for it would be a big undertaking.
Another issue is that the GPS's in Apple's devices are not the greatest, and even a really good GPS does not work well indoors.
You are likely to not get any GPS signal at all in a commercial building, with it's metal framing and likely florescent lighting.
The service I mentioned but still can't remember much about used Wifi instead of GPS to determine position, meaning it worked indoors (but required configuration so it could determine what signals corresponded to what location in a building.)
Is this the article you were thinking of?:
Apple Acquires Indoor Mobile Location Positioning Firm WifiSLAM for $20 Million
Yes, that's exactly it. I had been searching for "Map" in the MR archives. In hindsight, I feel silly for having thought it would have had "Mapping" in the title – "Mobile Location Positioning" makes a lot more sense.
Googling around, it seems that they never actually released an SDK, or if they did it's no longer available since Apple purchased them.