showing current location ,along with another location in iphone

Question

hellow all, whenever we load a mapview ,it automaticallay shows the current user location right. In my case i am showing another location on map ,such that the map loads the current location and zoomed to the location i have given .. but, the current location point was not showing (the blue one which comes automaticay..). i have given mapView.showCurrentLocation=TRUE; but its not showing . so could any one tells the way it works and it should say the current location mark and then zoomed to the point i have given. Thanks

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation {
    static NSString *defaultPinID = @"CameraAnnotation";
    MKPinAnnotationView *retval = nil;
    static int postag=1;

    (MKPinAnnotationView *)[mapView dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier:defaultPinID];
    if(annotation=MapView.userLocation)
    {
        return nil;
    }
    // If we have to, create a new view
    else    if (retval == nil)
    {
        retval = [[[MKPinAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:defaultPinID] autorelease];

        UIButton *myDetailButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeDetailDisclosure];
        myDetailButton.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 23);
        myDetailButton.contentVerticalAlignment = UIControlContentVerticalAlignmentCenter;
        myDetailButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;
        myDetailButton.tag=postag;
        postag++;
        [myDetailButton addTarget:self action:@selector(showLinks:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
        retval.rightCalloutAccessoryView = myDetailButton;
        [retval setPinColor:MKPinAnnotationColorRed];
        retval.animatesDrop = YES;
        retval.canShowCallout = YES;
    }

    return retval;
}

Answer 1

In simulator the default current location is Cupertino.This is what you are seeing, it will work properly in device.

More over you should use CLLocationManager to get the current location.

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application { 
{
self.locationManager = [[[CLLocationManager alloc] init] autorelease];
self.locationManager.delegate = self; // Tells the location manager to send updates to this object
[locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}

To change the pin color

MKPinAnnotationView   *pin=[[[MKPinAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:@"pin"]autorelease];

[pin setPinColor:MKPinAnnotationColorRed];

All the best.

Answer 2

take a look at the answer on this question to set the MkMapView zoom level to encompass all the MKAnnotations attached to it