How to add touch gesture to map but ignore touches on pins and annotations?

Question

I have a mapview that uses MKCircles to display radius information for certain user actions.

What I want to do, is allow the user to dismiss the M

Answer 1

This is my Swift 2.1 compatible version:

func didTapOnMap(recognizer: UITapGestureRecognizer) {
    let tapLocation = recognizer.locationInView(self)
    if let subview = self.hitTest(tapLocation, withEvent: nil) {
        if subview.isKindOfClass(NSClassFromString("MKNewAnnotationContainerView")!) {
            print("Tapped out")
        }
    }
}

MKNewAnnotationContainerView is a private inner class, so you cannot compare directly like:

if subview is MKNewAnnotationContainerView {
}