A nifty feature of the Android SDK is the MapView package which lets you integrate and control maps easily in your application. It’s too bad that you can’t do anything like that on the iPhone … or can you?
Well, so you can! It’s up on code.google.com called, intuitively enough, iphone-google-maps-component:
A component that you can add to your iPhone application to access all basic features of Google Maps (similar to Android’s MapView). It uses a UIWebView in the background to load the HTML/Javascript version of Google Maps, and offers a set of Objective-C methods that mimic a subset of the original Javascript methods for controlling the map. It currently supports setting the center location, and zooming & panning using the touch interface.
The original announcement, with video demo, can be found here .It’s not quite up there with a dedicated mapping component, but it definitely looks like a promising leg up on your next geolocating project!
h/t: MacRumors!
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