Animated GPS Location Update?

[borg359]

Hi guys,
I've successfully put together a mapview with a pin annotation representing the users current position that updates at a set interval. When the location manager updates the user's position, the pin annotation disappears and reappears at the new location. Has anyone played with getting the current user's GPS location to update through the use of an animation, like what is done in Apple's offical mapping application? If so, I'd love some pointers to get this to work. Thanks!


-dan

[Jeepston]

Put this in the method where you get updated location

   MKCoordinateRegion region;
    region.center=location.coordinate;
    //Set Zoom level using Span
    MKCoordinateSpan span;
    span.latitudeDelta=.002;
    span.longitudeDelta=.002;
    region.span=span;
    [mapView setRegion:region animated:YES];

[borg359]

Sorry that I wasn't more specific, I'm trying to get the GPS location annotation to animate, not the map center. I'm trying to replicate the behavior that you see in Apple's mapping program, where the blue GPS annotation smoothly moves when the location is updated.

I think this can be done by manually adding the GPS icon as an image subview and moving it using a Quartz animation, but I was hoping there was an easier way of doing this that I've overlooked.