035 iPhreaks Show – Mapkit with Christopher Judd

Panel

Christopher Judd (twitter github blog)
Pete Hodgson (twitter github blog)
Andrew Madsen (twitter github blog)
Jaim Zuber (twitter Sharp Five Software)
Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)

Discussion
00:37 - Christopher Judd Introduction

CTO of Manifest Solutions

01:59 - Mapkit

TomTom App
Geocaching

04:16 - Getting an App to Work with Mapkit

Core Location

06:19 - Accuracy

iBeacon
iSimulate

11:02 - Turn-by-turn Navigation

maps.apple.com/maps

13:16 - New in iOS7

Overlay Levels
MK Camera
Snapshotter
Direction & Routing
Geo District Polyline
Overlay Rendering
Tiled Overlays

15:00 - Heat Mapping
16:44 - Alternatives

Google Maps
route-me
CloudMade
MapQuest
Microsoft Bing Maps
Mapbox
Scout

19:35 - Gotchas
23:58 - Drawing Polygons/Charting
29:57 - Core Location

iBeacon
Estimote Beacons

34:49 - Battery Life

Geolocation

Picks

Objective-Cloud (Andrew)
Sound Exchange: Tampa Bay (Andrew)
Jyoti Natural Foods Chhole, Chickpeas with Potatoes and Onions (Jaim)
Indian Food (Pete)
Cooking Your Own Indian Food: Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation (Pete)
Upright Brewing (Pete)
Pivotal Tracker (Chuck)
Redmine (Chuck)
Pepsi Max (Christopher)
Cocoaconf (Christopher)

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Transcript

CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to episode 35 of the iPhreaks Show. This week on our panel, we have Pete Hodgson.

PETE:  Good morning from sunny San Francisco.

CHUCK:  Andrew Madsen.

ANDREW:  Good morning from cold Salt Lake City.

CHUCK:  Jaim Zuber.

JAIM:  Hey, hey. My, my.

ANDREW:  Rock and roll will never die.

CHUCK:  There we go.

JAIM:  [Inaudible] on mood.

ANDREW:  I’m a huge fan.

CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. And this week, we have a special guest and that’s Chris Judd.

CHRIS:  Thanks for having me.

CHUCK:  Yeah, no problem. Since you haven’t been on the show before, do you want to introduce yourself really quickly?

CHRIS:  Sure. I am the CTO of a medium-sized consulting company here at Columbus, Ohio called Manifest Solutions. And what I like to tell people is that by day, I’m a mild-mannered enterprise Java developer, but by night, I’m a crime-fighting mobile developer.

CHUCK:  Ooh, very nice.

JAIM:  Do you wear a cape for that?

CHRIS:  I don’t. But one of the applications I worked on is like ADT for your body. So, if you feel like you’re in a harmful situation, you can triple click this big button in the app and it will dispatch emergency or police to your location or open a one-way communication to a dispatch center.

CHUCK:  Oh, wow!

JAIM:  Wow! That’s pretty cool.

PETE:  It’s cool. It’s kind of like your phone is its own superhero or something.

CHUCK:  There you go. Do you wear glasses during the day and then take them off to save the world?

CHRIS:  Only when I go to the phone booth to change.

CHUCK:  For a second there, I was like, “I’d like to see that,” and then I was like, “No, no I wouldn’t.”

[Laughter]

PETE:  So, do you do mainly iOS development when it comes to mobile or do you do Android as well?

CHRIS:  So, I do a variety. I do Android, iOS, I do mobile web, I’ve done some PhoneGap and I’m Titanium Certified.

PETE:  Okay.

CHRIS:  Wow.

PETE:  That sounds like the kind of thing a superhero would say, “I am Titanium Certified.”

[Laughter]

PETE:  But Kryptonite allergic.

CHUCK:  Alright. Well, we brought you on today to talk about Mapkit.

CHRIS:  Well, that’s great because I think writing applications that take advantage of mapping data are a lot of fun.

CHUCK:  Do you know how many times my iPhone has gotten me lost?

CHRIS:  No, I don’t.

[Laughter]

PETE:  You have to be a real expert to know that. I know about everyone’s Mapkit.

CHUCK:  It’s about half the time, it seems. I get directions and it’s just like,