UPDATE
It looks like this problem has been quietly fixed in iOS 4.3. Up to this point, the distance that was considered "far enough" for an annotation to be recycled seemed to be hundreds of miles, even when zoomed in very closely. When I build my app with the iOS 4.3 SDK, annotations are recycled based on more reasonable limits.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Here's the code:
- (MKAnnotationView *)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView viewForAnnotation:(WWMapAnnotation *)annotation {
// Only return an Annotation view for the placemarks. Ignore for the current location--the iPhone SDK will place a blue ball there.
NSLog(@"Request for annotation view");
if ([annotation isKindOfClass:[WWMapAnnotation class]]){
MKPinAnnotationView *browse_map_annot_view = (MKPinAnnotationView *)[mapView dequeueReusableAnnotationViewWithIdentifier:@"BrowseMapAnnot"];
if (!browse_map_annot_view) {
browse_map_annot_view = [[[MKPinAnnotationView alloc] initWithAnnotation:annotation reuseIdentifier:@"BrowseMapAnnot"] autorelease];
NSLog(@"Creating new annotation view");
} else {
NSLog(@"Recycling annotation view");
browse_map_annot_view.annotation = annotation;
}
...
As soon as the view is displayed, I get
2009-08-05 13:12:03.332 xxx[24308:20b] Request for annotation view
2009-08-05 13:12:03.333 xxx[24308:20b] Creating new annotation view
2009-08-05 13:12:03.333 xxx[24308:20b] Request for annotation view
2009-08-05 13:12:03.333 xxx[24308:20b] Creating new annotation view
and on and on, for every annotation (~60) I've added. The map (correctly) only displays the two annotations in the current rect. I am setting the region in viewDidLoad:
if (center_point.latitude == 0) {
center_point.latitude = 35.785098;
center_point.longitude = -78.669899;
}
if (map_span.latitudeDelta == 0) {
map_span.lat