Does MKMapSnapshotter do what you want? There's a bunch of stuff about maps in OSX in the WWDC 2013 videos, I think I remember seeing that there.
On 29 Nov, 2013, at 9:14 pm, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > What I want to do is to use MapKit to get imagery of a particular region, > display it as a layer in an app, and allow the user to trace over it. > > MapKit makes this hard, probably deliberately. > > First, MKMapView is the only object available for displaying the map - there > is no lower-level object that will render map data into a view of your own. > This doesn’t fit very well with the existing architecture of my app - I > already have a view that renders the layered content, adding the map view as > a subview is not the same thing. It might be possible to make that work > though, assuming I can force it to be semi-transparent, and somehow route > mouse events around it to the enclosing view. > > Next, MKMapView deliberately prevents -dataWithPDFInRect: from returning > anything useful, so I can’t use that to capture the graphics by that route. > > So, I was wondering if a screenshot approach would be feasible. I can take a > screenshot of the map view and that works, but if I’m to make that work in > code, it would be nice if the screenshot could be done without having to make > an actual window visible and free of overlap from any other view/window. Does > that sound even remotely possible? > > In general, is using MapKit in such a way even allowed? It seems it could > well be highly legally encumbered anyway. Thoughts? > > —Graham > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/rols%40rols.org > > This email sent to r...@rols.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
