Question

Quick background of what I have going on. UIMapView loads and shows a single annotation (Never more than one). On the menu bar, there is a Locate Me button, on tap the userLocation is found and displayed as a second annotation. I then I have MapView zoom out to fit both those annotations in range but I am unable to find a suitable way of doing so. Depending on where the first annotation is placed in relation to the user location, sometimes it doesn’t zoom out enough.

For example, if the annotation is North West of the User, it zooms out fine. But if the annotation is South East of the User, it only zooms out enough that they are just getting cut off and you have to manually zoom out a bit more. Here’s the code I am using, variation of some others I have found on SO.

        CLLocation *whereIAm = mapView.userLocation.location;

        float lat = whereIAm.coordinate.latitude;
        float lon = whereIAm.coordinate.longitude;


        CLLocationCoordinate2D southWest = {[currentLatitude floatValue], [currentLongitude floatValue]};
        CLLocationCoordinate2D northEast = southWest;

        southWest.latitude = MIN(southWest.latitude, lat);
        southWest.longitude = MIN(southWest.longitude, lon);

        northEast.latitude = MAX(northEast.latitude, lat);
        northEast.longitude = MAX(northEast.longitude, lon);

        CLLocation *locSouthWest = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:southWest.latitude longitude:southWest.longitude];
        CLLocation *locNorthEast = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:northEast.latitude longitude:northEast.longitude];

        CLLocationDistance meters = [locSouthWest distanceFromLocation:locNorthEast];

        MKCoordinateRegion region;
        region.center.latitude = (southWest.latitude + northEast.latitude) / 2.0;
        region.center.longitude = (southWest.longitude + northEast.longitude) / 2.0;
        region.span.latitudeDelta = meters / 111319.5
        region.span.longitudeDelta = 7.0;

        MKCoordinateRegion savedRegion = [mapView regionThatFits:region];
        [mapView setRegion:savedRegion animated:YES];

        [locSouthWest release];
        [locNorthEast release];

Is there a better way built into MapKit to just zoom out so that both annotations have, lets say half an inch between them at the outer frame? I don’t really care if the user has to zoom in after, I just want it to zoom out properly.

Answer 1

-(void)zoomToFitMapAnnotations:(MKMapView*)mapView
{
    if([mapView.annotations count] == 0)
        return;

    CLLocationCoordinate2D topLeftCoord;
    topLeftCoord.latitude = -90;
    topLeftCoord.longitude = 180;

    CLLocationCoordinate2D bottomRightCoord;
    bottomRightCoord.latitude = 90;
    bottomRightCoord.longitude = -180;

    for(MapAnnotation* annotation in mapView.annotations)
    {
        topLeftCoord.longitude = fmin(topLeftCoord.longitude, annotation.coordinate.longitude);
        topLeftCoord.latitude = fmax(topLeftCoord.latitude, annotation.coordinate.latitude);

        bottomRightCoord.longitude = fmax(bottomRightCoord.longitude, annotation.coordinate.longitude);
        bottomRightCoord.latitude = fmin(bottomRightCoord.latitude, annotation.coordinate.latitude);
    }

    MKCoordinateRegion region;
    region.center.latitude = topLeftCoord.latitude - (topLeftCoord.latitude - bottomRightCoord.latitude) * 0.5;
    region.center.longitude = topLeftCoord.longitude + (bottomRightCoord.longitude - topLeftCoord.longitude) * 0.5;
    region.span.latitudeDelta = fabs(topLeftCoord.latitude - bottomRightCoord.latitude) * 1.1; // Add a little extra space on the sides
    region.span.longitudeDelta = fabs(bottomRightCoord.longitude - topLeftCoord.longitude) * 1.1; // Add a little extra space on the sides

    region = [mapView regionThatFits:region];
    [mapView setRegion:region animated:YES];
}

Taken from: http://codisllc.com/blog/zoom-mkmapview-to-fit-annotations/

(Use it all the time.)