How to determine if an annotation is inside of MKPolygonView (iOS)

I'm trying to calculate if a specific annotation(like the blue circle of the user location) or a MKPinAnnotation is inside an MKPolygon layer on the mapview.

Any advice to achieve this?

Solution 1:

The following converts the coordinate to a CGPoint in the polygon view and uses CGPathContainsPoint to test if that point is in the path (which may be non-rectangular):

CLLocationCoordinate2D mapCoordinate = ...; //user location or annot coord

MKMapPoint mapPoint = MKMapPointForCoordinate(mapCoordinate);

MKPolygonView *polygonView = 
    (MKPolygonView *)[mapView viewForOverlay:polygonOverlay];

CGPoint polygonViewPoint = [polygonView pointForMapPoint:mapPoint];

BOOL mapCoordinateIsInPolygon = 
    CGPathContainsPoint(polygonView.path, NULL, polygonViewPoint, NO);

This should work with any overlay view that is a subclass of MKOverlayPathView. You can actually replace MKPolygonView with MKOverlayPathView in the example.

Solution 2:

Slightly modified above to do calculations for points/coordinates in polygons without the use of a MKMapView formatted as an extension to MKPolygon class:

//MKPolygon+PointInPolygon.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <MapKit/MapKit.h>

@interface MKPolygon (PointInPolygon)

-(BOOL)coordInPolygon:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coord;
-(BOOL)pointInPolygon:(MKMapPoint)point;

@end

//MKPolygon+PointInPolygon.m

#import "MKPolygon+PointInPolygon.h"

@implementation MKPolygon (PointInPolygon)

-(BOOL)coordInPolygon:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coord {

    MKMapPoint mapPoint = MKMapPointForCoordinate(coord);
    return [self pointInPolygon:mapPoint];
}

-(BOOL)pointInPolygon:(MKMapPoint)mapPoint {

    MKPolygonRenderer *polygonRenderer = [[MKPolygonRenderer alloc] initWithPolygon:self];
    CGPoint polygonViewPoint = [polygonRenderer pointForMapPoint:mapPoint];
    return CGPathContainsPoint(polygonRenderer.path, NULL, polygonViewPoint, NO);
}

@end

Enjoy!