MKAnnotationView and tap detection

Question

I have a MKMapView. I added a UITapGestureRecognizer with a single tap.

I now want to add a MKAnnotationView to the map. I can

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you would have a UITapGestureRecognizer on your map view, saying this in plain text is obviously implying it will mess around with some multitouch functionality of your map.

I would suggest you take a look and play around with the cancelsTouchesInView property of UIGestureRecognizer (see documentation). I think this could solve your problem. Make sure you check out the documentation.