Getting the bounds of an MKMapView

Question

In order to setup a query to an external server I want to get the bounds of the current Map View in an iPhone app I\'m building. UIView should respond to bounds but it seems

Answer 1

This http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bounding_Box is a document for bounding box

bbox = left,bottom,right,top
bbox = min Longitude , min Latitude , max Longitude , max Latitude

You can have a BoundingBox struct that represents this

struct BoundingBox {
  let min: CLLocationCoordinate2D
  let max: CLLocationCoordinate2D

  init(rect: MKMapRect) {
    let bottomLeft = MKMapPointMake(rect.origin.x, MKMapRectGetMaxY(rect))
    let topRight = MKMapPointMake(MKMapRectGetMaxX(rect), rect.origin.y)

    min = MKCoordinateForMapPoint(bottomLeft)
    max = MKCoordinateForMapPoint(topRight)
  }

  var points: [CLLocationDegrees] {
    return [
      min.latitude,
      min.longitude,
      max.latitude
      max.longitude,
    ]
  }
}

The visibleMapRect is the same as region.span

let mapView = MKMapView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 320, height: 640))
XCTAssertEqual(mapView.userLocation.coordinate.latitude, 0)
XCTAssertEqual(mapView.userLocation.coordinate.longitude, 0)

let boundingBox = BoundingBox(rect: mapView.visibleMapRect)
XCTAssertEqual(boundingBox.max.longitude-boundingBox.min.longitude, mapView.region.span.longitudeDelta)
XCTAssertEqual(boundingBox.max.latitude-boundingBox.min.latitude, mapView.region.span.latitudeDelta)