I have run into a very confusing situation with maps on the iPhone. Everything had been running without a hitch on a maps based app that I was developing, and then yesterday my device and the iOS simulators started exhibiting some bizarre behaviour where the tiles the app was fetching for the map did not line up with where they should be.
Here’s a screenshot of what I am seeing.
This is happening on both my device (after a factory reset as well) and on the iOS simulator. I managed to fix the simulator by reinstalling Xcode, but this problem seems to be back! I can’t for the life of me figure out what it could be.
I should note that I have tried clearing the map tiles cache and it would fix it for a while then the problem would start again.
Also I cleared the map tiles cache and then created an brand new MapKit app and the problem started again so I am sure it isn’t my app causing it. It is happening also on the iOS 4 and 5 simulators.
Thanks so much for your help!
There have been quite some reports of people from the Japan area that this affects all devices in the area. Maybe this is the same thing in Australia as well. There is a lengthy apple discussion on https://discussions.apple.com/message/16630435 with affected people.