Reputation: 44352
Is it possible to display nearby businesses in mapkit? If not, how else can that be done?
Is there a way to display by category - restaurant, retail, museums?
Also, I don't think displaying traffic flow is available. Can anyone confirm?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2832
Reputation: 1977
I know this thread is kind of old, but i figured out a free alternative to do what you are looking for, more or less. You just nee to tap into a maps.google.com service and get a kml or JSON output. I used KML (XML) becuase i found the filesize to be consistently smaller. I wrote a 3 part series on my blog about how to do this for anyone that is interested.
http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-1/
http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-2/
http://www.zen-sign.com/finding-business-listings-and-displaying-with-mapkit-part-3/
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 1875
Like DyingCactus said, it's not currently possible without using your own calls to one of the mapping service providers. There are options available, though.
One of them is CloudMade. They have a good iPhone library and support almost all of your requirements.
Check out the API at Cloudmade.com
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 59719
This is an interesting and emerging business idea!
I live in Nordic region and there is an open Mashups especially for sweden. By open i mean, any one can request and get access to the content to find nearby Cafe / WiFi / Sushi restaurants etc..
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Check my iphone application which fetches content from the mashups and display using MapKit!
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And there is a commercial content provider called Info24 for nordic countries at the moment.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation:
The current version of MapKit does not support such features.
It's main capabilities currently are:
To display nearby businesses, you would have to:
Upvotes: 3