

Alasdair Allan is a senior research fellow in Astronomy at the University of Exeter. As part of his work there he is building a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical events.
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Mobile Positioning and Mapping on iPhone and iPad
Paperback Engels 2012 1e druk 9781449308445Samenvatting
Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications. In this concise hands-on guide, author Alasdair Allan takes you deep inside Apple's Core Location framework, Map Kit, and other iOS tools, using illustrative examples and sample Objective-C code. Learn how to build location-aware apps for both iPhones and iPads, using code that detects hardware features and then adjusts your app's behavior.
If you're a programmer with iOS experience, or a Mac developer familiar with Objective-C, this book helps you get off to a solid start in location-based app development.
You'll learn about:
- Core Location: Understand the significant-change location service and geo-fencing capabilities
- Map Kit: Embed maps into your application's views
- Magnetometer: Use the on-board sensor as a digital compass
- Geocoding capabilities: Translate geographic coordinates into place names, and vice versa
- Heat maps: Get a code walkthrough for displaying these maps on top of a standard MapKit view
- Third-party SDKs: Add unique geo-location capabilities to your app from SkyHook Wireless, MapBox, and other providers
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
1. Introduction
-Hardware Support
-Detecting Hardware Differences
-Setting Required Hardware Capabilities
2. Core Location
-The Standard Location Service
-Significant Location Monitoring
-Region Monitoring
3. Map Kit
-Adding a Map
-Annotating Maps
-Adding Overlays
4. Digital Compass
-About the Magnetometer
-Writing a Compass Application
5. Geocoding
-Reverse Geocoding
-Forward Geocoding
-Building an Example App
6. Drawing Heat Maps
-Building an Earthquake Map
-Overlaying Other Types of Images
7. Further Information and Third-Party SDKs
-Skyhook Wireless
-GeoLoqi
-MapBox
-Bing Maps Control for iOS
-ArcGIS for iOS
-Urban Airship
-Foursquare
Index
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