Question

i am working with Mapkit and i am on SDK 4.2, i am having a strange bug here, in fact i have 3 annotation types, “blue.png”, red.png,black.png. I am loading these by a flux and depending on the type its will select these annotation types. Everything works fine when the map is loaded i have the the different annotation view, but when i move , zoom in or zoom out the annotation view changes i.e where it was supposed to be blue.png it becomes black.png.

I am actually testing it on device.

Thank you very much 🙂

Answer 1

Hey veer the problem is that this method is called if the user pans the map to view another location and then comes back to the place where the annotations are plotted.

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapview viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation

I have seen many sample code for map application and this in what most of the people are using.

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapview viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation
{
    if ([annotation isKindOfClass:[MKUserLocation class]])
        return nil;
    static NSString* AnnotationIdentifier = @"AnnotationIdentifier";
    MKAnnotationView *annotationView = [mapView dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier:AnnotationIdentifier];
    if(annotationView)
        return annotationView;
    else
    {
        MKPinAnnotationView* pinView = [[[MKPinAnnotationView alloc]
                                         initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:AnnotationIdentifier] autorelease];
        pinView.animatesDrop=YES;
        pinView.canShowCallout=YES;
        pinView.draggable = YES;
        pinView.pinColor = MKPinAnnotationColorGreen;
        return pinView;
    }
    return nil;
}