On 20 Sep 2014, at 01:30, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:06 , John Tsombakos <johnt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You also need to add items to your Info.plist file:
>> 
>> NSLocationAlwaysUsageDescription
>> 
>> and/or
>> 
>> NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription
> 
> And to clarify, these are keys for a string value. That string value gets 
> displayed as detail text in the authorization dialog. I just ran into all 
> this myself yesterday, and it was not at all clear that this had to be done. 
> I don't know why MKMapView can't handle all this on its own.

Very good advice! This was the magic thing I was missing.

I'm sure this is clearly documented somewhere (maybe at the local planning 
department in Alpha Centauri).

Anyway, all is well now and thanks very much!

Kind regards,

Gerriet.

> 
>> 
>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> So I put it into viewDidLoad of the view controller for the MapView.
>>> 
>>> But:
>>> 
>>> authorizationStatus = kCLAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined
>>> locationServicesEnabled = YES
>>> 
>>> so I do (as recommended):
>>> [ self.locationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization ];
>>> 
>>> Now I would expect a panel to come up, asking the user "Do you want to 
>>> allow this app to use Location Services?"
>>> But nothing is seen (iOS 8.0).
>>> 
>>> And when I ask the manager for a location, I just get nil.
>>> 
>>> Later on I get: locationManager:didChangeAuthorizationStatus: 
>>> kCLAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined
>>> 
>>> and: "Trying to start MapKit location updates without prompting for 
>>> location authorization."
>>> 
>>> Not very useful.


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