Showing Driving Directions in MapKit

Question

Hello All,

is there any way to show the driving directions in iphones MapKit?

is there any way to get the coordinates and names of a route as an XML or in other formates from google MAPs API ? eg , http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=39.23232,-103.343433&daddr=41.23232,-104.344343&ie=UTF8&z=12

Answer 1

No, you cannot use MapKit for driving directions. It does not support this.

However, you could improvise a transparent view on top of MapKit and draw something, but nothing native to MapKit.

EDIT: Here is a sample of drawing routes yourself:
http://spitzkoff.com/craig/?p=65

Answer 2

You can add to your view UIWebView. Than load to UIWebView something like this

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/directions-simple.html