Satellite Map View on iPhone ?

RaidenMAC wrote:
I as far as know, there is MKMapView in iPhone SDK. This view has only a map view.
There is no satellite view option.

The MapKit framework supports an interface to Google Maps/Google Earth services, so the kind of map you can display isn't limited by the MKMapView class, but depends on what Google provides and whether you know how to ask for what you want. To use that class you should become familiar with those Google services as well as MapKit.

To answer your question directly, take a look at the mapType property in the +MKMapView Class Reference+. Here's a page that might help you navigate the Google docs: [http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/index.html].

Since MapKit was added to 3.0, it's no longer necessary to deal directly with the Google API, but I think the more you know about it, the easier it will be to understand MKMapView.

\- Ray

Here's another link with lots of good info: [http://blog.objectgraph.com/index.php/2009/04/02/iphone-sdk-30-playing-with-ma p-kit>. - R