Getting the bounds of an MKMapView

Question

In order to setup a query to an external server I want to get the bounds of the current Map View in an iPhone app I\'m building. UIView should respond to bounds but it seems

Answer 1

This extension solves this problem and maintain the centerCoordinate syntax in Swift 5

extension MKMapView {
    var northWestCoordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D {
        return MKMapPoint(x: visibleMapRect.minX, y: visibleMapRect.minY).coordinate
    }

    var northEastCoordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D {
        return MKMapPoint(x: visibleMapRect.maxX, y: visibleMapRect.minY).coordinate
    }

    var southEastCoordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D {
        return MKMapPoint(x: visibleMapRect.maxX, y: visibleMapRect.maxY).coordinate
    }

    var southWestCoordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D {
        return MKMapPoint(x: visibleMapRect.minX, y: visibleMapRect.maxY).coordinate
    }
}

Answer 2

This http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bounding_Box is a document for bounding box

bbox = left,bottom,right,top
bbox = min Longitude , min Latitude , max Longitude , max Latitude

You can have a BoundingBox struct that represents this

struct BoundingBox {
  let min: CLLocationCoordinate2D
  let max: CLLocationCoordinate2D

  init(rect: MKMapRect) {
    let bottomLeft = MKMapPointMake(rect.origin.x, MKMapRectGetMaxY(rect))
    let topRight = MKMapPointMake(MKMapRectGetMaxX(rect), rect.origin.y)

    min = MKCoordinateForMapPoint(bottomLeft)
    max = MKCoordinateForMapPoint(topRight)
  }

  var points: [CLLocationDegrees] {
    return [
      min.latitude,
      min.longitude,
      max.latitude
      max.longitude,
    ]
  }
}

The visibleMapRect is the same as region.span

let mapView = MKMapView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 320, height: 640))
XCTAssertEqual(mapView.userLocation.coordinate.latitude, 0)
XCTAssertEqual(mapView.userLocation.coordinate.longitude, 0)

let boundingBox = BoundingBox(rect: mapView.visibleMapRect)
XCTAssertEqual(boundingBox.max.longitude-boundingBox.min.longitude, mapView.region.span.longitudeDelta)
XCTAssertEqual(boundingBox.max.latitude-boundingBox.min.latitude, mapView.region.span.latitudeDelta)

Answer 3

I was having some trouble with some of the other answers for maps that had been 2 finger rotated. This code worked for me:

MKMapRect rect = self.mapView.visibleMapRect;
CLLocationCoordinate2D northeast = MKCoordinateForMapPoint(MKMapPointMake(MKMapRectGetMaxX(rect),rect.origin.y));
CLLocationCoordinate2D southwest = MKCoordinateForMapPoint(MKMapPointMake(rect.origin.x         ,MKMapRectGetMaxY(rect)));

My answer is derived from 陈保状's answer and the associated website enter link description here. Its simplified down too 3 lines for south west and north east corners.

Answer 4

Updated @onmyway133's excellent answer for my purposes, I needed the coordinates of all four corners:

struct BoundingBox {
    let topRight: CLLocationCoordinate2D
    let topLeft: CLLocationCoordinate2D
    let bottomRight: CLLocationCoordinate2D
    let bottomLeft: CLLocationCoordinate2D
    
    init(rect: MKMapRect) {
        topRight = MKMapPoint(x: rect.maxX, y: rect.origin.y).coordinate
        topLeft = MKMapPoint(x: rect.origin.x, y: rect.origin.y).coordinate
        bottomRight = MKMapPoint(x: rect.maxX, y: rect.maxY).coordinate
        bottomLeft = MKMapPoint(x: rect.origin.x, y: rect.maxY).coordinate
    }
    
    var items: [String: CLLocationCoordinate2D] {
        return [
            "topRight": topRight,
            "topLeft": topLeft,
            "bottomRight": bottomRight,
            "bottomLeft": bottomLeft,
        ]
    }
    
    var points: [CLLocationDegrees] {
        return [
            topRight.latitude,
            topRight.longitude,
            topLeft.latitude,
            topLeft.longitude,
            bottomRight.latitude,
            bottomRight.longitude,
            bottomLeft.latitude,
            bottomLeft.longitude,
        ]
    }
}

And an example of how I used this data:

let boundingBox = BoundingBox(rect: mapView.visibleMapRect)
var annotations = Array<MKPointAnnotation>()

for point in boundingBox.items {
    let newPoint = MKPointAnnotation()
    newPoint.coordinate = point.value
    annotations.append(newPoint)
}

mapView.addAnnotations(annotations)

Answer 5

Swift away... (Based on @deadroxy's answer...)

typealias Edges = (ne: CLLocationCoordinate2D, sw: CLLocationCoordinate2D)

extension MKMapView {
    func edgePoints() -> Edges {
          let nePoint = CGPoint(x: self.bounds.maxX, y: self.bounds.origin.y)
    let swPoint = CGPoint(x: self.bounds.minX, y: self.bounds.maxY)
    
    let neCoord = self.convert(nePoint, toCoordinateFrom: self)
    let swCoord = self.convert(swPoint, toCoordinateFrom: self)
    
    return (ne: neCoord, sw: swCoord)
    }
}

Answer 6

This code works with map rotating like 90/180 degrees. set mapView.pitchEnabled = NO; for less bugs.

CLLocationDirection heading = mapView.camera.heading;

float mapWidth = mapView.frame.size.width;
float mapHeight = mapView.frame.size.height;

float neX = mapWidth;
float neY = 0.0;

float swX = 0.0;
float swY = mapHeight;


if (heading >= 0 && heading <= 90) {
    //println("Q1")
    float ratio = heading / 90;

    neX = (1-ratio) * mapWidth;
    swX = (mapWidth*ratio);
} else if (heading >= 90 && heading <= 180) {
    //println("Q2")
    float ratio = (heading - 90) / 90;
    neX = 0;
    neY = (mapHeight*ratio);
    swY = (1-ratio) * mapHeight;
    swX = mapWidth;

} else if (heading >= 180 && heading <= 270) {
    //println("Q3")
    float ratio = (heading - 180) / 90;
    neX = mapWidth*ratio;
    neY = mapHeight;
    swX = (1-ratio) * mapWidth;
    swY = 0;

} else if (heading >= 270 && heading <= 360) {
    //println("Q4");
    float ratio = (heading - 270) / 90;
    neX = mapWidth;
    neY = (1-ratio) * mapHeight;
    swY = ratio * mapHeight;

}

CGPoint swPoint = CGPointMake(swX, swY);
CGPoint nePoint = CGPointMake(neX, neY);

CLLocationCoordinate2D swCoord = [mapView convertPoint:swPoint toCoordinateFromView:mapView];
CLLocationCoordinate2D neCoord = [mapView convertPoint:nePoint toCoordinateFromView:mapView];