Official GIS Data

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Created Oct ’21

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I am looking to share official GIS data with Apple Maps for our county. Does anyone know where or how to do this? I am the 911 director for the county. Thanks.

Answered by Engineer in 692856022

Although incorporating GIS data and features specific to a county, or specifically for responders to use may not be the best fit for a consumer app like Maps, you may want to look into creating your own specific app using MapKit.

The MapKit framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/) allows you to use the generic Apple Maps, and also would allow you to layer specific map tiles on top of the default views, displaying the GIS data based views that way.

But all this depends on what kind of GIS data you are trying to display.

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Engineer OP

Apple

Oct ’21

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Although incorporating GIS data and features specific to a county, or specifically for responders to use may not be the best fit for a consumer app like Maps, you may want to look into creating your own specific app using MapKit.

The MapKit framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/) allows you to use the generic Apple Maps, and also would allow you to layer specific map tiles on top of the default views, displaying the GIS data based views that way.

But all this depends on what kind of GIS data you are trying to display.

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Magoffin911 OP

Nov ’21

We were just looking at getting the proper data into Apple Maps because many people use it as a navigation tool, along with Google Maps etc. It in Shape file format.

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