How to display and connect multiple locations with a route with annotations in an MKMapView inside an iPhone App?

Question

I need to display a MKMapView with more than 4 locations with different Annotations and a route connecting the locations. I have tried to display the multiple locations inside a MKMapView but i still not able to find out on how to connect the locations with a route. I am also trying to get this checked if i have implemented it in a right way. I have created a "CLLocationCoordinate2D" and then added a lat and long similarly for 4 points. I have created a custom object which implements MKAnnotation and returning a location .

CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate1 = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(40.7180583 ,-74.007109);
CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate2 = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(40.716355 ,-74.006816);
CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate3 = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(40.715281 ,-74.005485);
CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate4 = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(40.71559 ,-74.003114);

AnnotationPoints *location1 = [[AnnotationPoints alloc] initWithCoordinate:coordinate1];
AnnotationPoints *location2 = [[AnnotationPoints alloc] initWithCoordinate:coordinate2];
AnnotationPoints *location3 = [[AnnotationPoints alloc] initWithCoordinate:coordinate3];
AnnotationPoints *location4 = [[AnnotationPoints alloc] initWithCoordinate:coordinate4];

NSArray *poiArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:location1,location2,location3,location4,nil];
    [mapView addAnnotations:poiArray];

//Inside the Annotation Class initWithCoordinate Method is implemented this way:-
-(id)initWithCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D) c{
    coordinate=c;
    NSLog(@"%f,%f",c.latitude,c.longitude);
    return self;
}

My concern here is i need to create a Annotation Point for every Location. Is there any alternative that i can load all the points at a single place. And another difficulty here is the route connecting all the multiple points. Any help on this? Thanks a lot

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-04T15:30:19

The way you are adding the annotations is fine.
Not sure what your concern is and what you mean by "all the points at a single place".
If you want pins/annotations at several places, you have to create a separate annotation object for each place.

Drawing a route connecting those locations requires creating an overlay (not an "annotation").
You want to add an MKPolyline to the map for which you will specify the list of coordinates.

To draw the polyline, you don't need to also add annotations at each coordinate (but you could if you want to).

Creating and adding an MKPolyline and its corresponding MKPolylineView is very similar to MKPolygon and MKPolygonView. See this question for an example:

iPhone MKMapView - MKPolygon Issues

How to display and connect multiple locations with a route with annotations in an MKMapView inside an iPhone App?

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