Working with offline maps in my simulator

Question

I can't connect to the internet from my workplace (no need to enter in details), and I started working in an app using mapkit framework. So, my question is simple and plain: Is there any way to setup my simulator to work with maps offline?.

Preferably, I'm looking for something like copying some cached maps into my simulator resources, and do some tweaks for displaying the maps in the simulator as if I were connect to internet.

Note that I have no clue on how to do this:(

Answer 1

You've got two approaches with the Mapbox tools:

1. Use the SDK and its RMTileCache mechanism for SQLite, disk-backed caches or the MBTiles pre-bundling of map tiles approach.

2. Use MBXMapKit along with MapKit and its disk-backed caching of overlay tiles, possibly replacing all of Apple's maps.

Answer 2

From what I have been able to tell MapKit does not seem to provide a way of caching map tiles, nor does it seem to provide an offline mode.

Instead of using MapKit a number of people seem to reccommend MapBox[1] instead.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com