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iPhones have always had a way to determine where in the world they are. Even though the original iPhone didn’t have GPS, it did have a Maps application and was able to represent its approximate location on the map using cell phone triangulation or by looking up its WiFi IP address in a database of known locations. Prior to SDK 3, there was no way to leverage this functionality within your own applications. It was possible to launch the Maps application to show a specific location or route, but it wasn’t possible, using only Apple-provided APIs, to show map data without leaving your application.
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© 2009 Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche
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Mark, D., LaMarche, J. (2009). MapKit. In: More iPhone 3 Development. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2506-5_11
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