Setting the zoom level for a MKMapView

Question

I have a map which shows correctly, the only thing I want to do now is set the zoom level when it loads. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

A simple Swift implementation, if you use outlets.

@IBOutlet weak var mapView: MKMapView! {
    didSet {
        let noLocation = CLLocationCoordinate2D()
        let viewRegion = MKCoordinateRegionMakeWithDistance(noLocation, 500, 500)
        self.mapView.setRegion(viewRegion, animated: false)
    }
}

Based on @Carnal's answer.

Answer 2

Swift implementation

import Foundation
import MapKit

class MapViewWithZoom: MKMapView {

    var zoomLevel: Int {
        get {
            return Int(log2(360 * (Double(self.frame.size.width/256) / self.region.span.longitudeDelta)) + 1);
        }

        set (newZoomLevel){
            setCenterCoordinate(coordinate:self.centerCoordinate, zoomLevel: newZoomLevel, animated: false)
        }
    }

    private func setCenterCoordinate(coordinate: CLLocationCoordinate2D, zoomLevel: Int, animated: Bool) {
        let span = MKCoordinateSpan(latitudeDelta: 0, longitudeDelta: 360 / pow(2, Double(zoomLevel)) * Double(self.frame.size.width) / 256)
        setRegion(MKCoordinateRegion(center: coordinate, span: span), animated: animated)
    }
}

Answer 3

Here, I put my answer and its working for swift 4.2.

MKMapView center and zoom in

Answer 4

For Swift 3 it's pretty fast forward:

private func setMapRegion(for location: CLLocationCoordinate2D, animated: Bool)
{
    let viewRegion = MKCoordinateRegionMakeWithDistance(location, <#T##latitudinalMeters: CLLocationDistance##CLLocationDistance#>, <#T##longitudinalMeters: CLLocationDistance##CLLocationDistance#>)
    MapView.setRegion(viewRegion, animated: animated)
}

Just define the lat-, long-Meters <CLLocationDistance> and the mapView will fit the zoom level to your values.

Answer 5

It's not built in, but I've seen / used this code. This allows you to use this:

[mapView setCenterCoordinate:myCoord zoomLevel:13 animated:YES];

Note: This is not my code, I did not write it, so therefore can't take credit for it

Answer 6

A Swift 2.0 answer utilising NSUserDefaults to save and restore the map's zoom and position.

Function to save the map position and zoom:

func saveMapRegion() {
    let mapRegion = [
        "latitude" : mapView.region.center.latitude,
        "longitude" : mapView.region.center.longitude,
        "latitudeDelta" : mapView.region.span.latitudeDelta,
        "longitudeDelta" : mapView.region.span.longitudeDelta
    ]
    NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(mapRegion, forKey: "mapRegion")
}

Run the function each time the map is moved:

func mapView(mapView: MKMapView, regionDidChangeAnimated animated: Bool) 
{
        saveMapRegion();
}

Function to save the map zoom and position:

func restoreMapRegion() 
{
    if let mapRegion = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("mapRegion") 
    {

        let longitude = mapRegion["longitude"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let latitude = mapRegion["latitude"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let center = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: latitude, longitude: longitude)

        let longitudeDelta = mapRegion["latitudeDelta"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let latitudeDelta = mapRegion["longitudeDelta"] as! CLLocationDegrees
        let span = MKCoordinateSpan(latitudeDelta: latitudeDelta, longitudeDelta: longitudeDelta)

        let savedRegion = MKCoordinateRegion(center: center, span: span)

        self.mapView.setRegion(savedRegion, animated: false)
    }
}

Add this to viewDidLoad:

restoreMapRegion()