Keeping Track of Moving Things: MapKit and CoreLocation in Depth

Geoffrey Goetz

Geoffrey Goetz is currently the Director of Marketing at dBase, founding member of ggeoffre LLC, and...

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Adding a Map to an App and recording a User’s location as they use the App has become a common must have feature in may of todays popular applications. This presentation will go over the APIs for accomplishing such tasks including map annotations, dragging and dropping custom pins as well as delve into some of the finer aspects of the required location based calculations one needs to consider to find the center of the map or the distance between two points. Additionally the presentation will go over techniques to update a MapView with a moving object as well as positioning the image for the object properly along its heading. This will be a straight forward hands on development presentation with plenty of code examples.