Show the Blue Dot with MapsIndoors - Part 2

Last updated: 6/14/2023

A newer version of the MapsIndoors SDK for iOS is available. The legacy version will not receive new features and will only get critical bugfix and security updates.

This is part 2 of the tutorial of managing a blue dot on the map. In Part 1 we created the position provider. Now we will create a view controller displaying a map that shows the users (mock) location.

Create a class ShowMyLocationController that inherits from UIViewController.

class ShowMyLocationController: UIViewController {

Add a GMSMapView and a MPMapControl to the class

var map: GMSMapView? = nil
var mapControl: MPMapControl? = nil

override func viewDidLoad() {

    super.viewDidLoad()

Inside viewDidLoad, setup the map so that it shows the demo venue and initialise mapControl

self.map = GMSMapView.init(frame: CGRect.zero)
self.view = self.map
self.map?.camera = .camera(withLatitude: 57.057964, longitude: 9.9504112, zoom: 20)
self.mapControl = MPMapControl.init(map: self.map!)

Inside viewDidLoad

• Tell mapControl to show the users location
• Assign your position provider MyPositionProvider to MapsIndoors.positionProvider
• Start positioning

self.mapControl?.showUserPosition(true)
MapsIndoors.positionProvider = MyPositionProvider()
MapsIndoors.positionProvider.startPositioning(nil)

See the sample in ShowMyLocationController.swift