mkmapview MKUserLocation AnnotationView

Question

I'm trying to create custom annotationviews for the annotations on my map. I'm doing that by adapting the protocol MKMapViewDelegate and overwriting the function mapView:viewForAnnotation:. It all works, the only problem is that I also have showsUserLocation set to TRUE, which means that one "Annotation" I get in my mapView:viewForAnnotation: method is of the class MKUserLocation.

I don't want the userlocation annotation to have my custom annotationview, I want that one to show the default userlocation annotationview! How do I return the default userlocation annotationview for the userlocation or exclude it from the annotations (that come in mapView:viewForAnnotation:)?

I have tried to catch the UserLocation in the mapView:viewForAnnotation: method, but I don't know what to return! (In this example I'm returning a standard MKAnnotationView, but that doesn't look like the default UserLocation Annotation (obviously).)

    if (![[annotation class] isEqual:[MKUserLocation class]]) {

        MKAnnotationView *view = [[MKAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:@"customAnnotation"];
        // edit the custom view
        return view;
    }

    MKAnnotationView *view = [[MKAnnotationView alloc] init];
    return view;

Answer 1

to show the default annotation for user location just return nil for that case, I did it this way:

- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id <MKAnnotation>)annotation
{
    // use your custom annotation
    if ([annotation isKindOfClass:[MyAnnotationClass class]]) {
        ...

        return annotationView;
    }

    // use default annotation
    return nil;
}

Answer 2

Inside your viewForAnnotation method write this piece of code. Here the var 'map' is the outlet for your MKMapview;

   - (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(id < MKAnnotation >)annotation
    {



        //Annoation View for current Location

        if(map.userLocation != annotation)

        {
            UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
            annotation.image = image;

            return annotation; 


        }

        //Annotation View for current location

         return nil;

    }