Is there any way to change the appearance of MKMapView?

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Is there a way to manipulate the look of MKMapView (colors etc) like with Core Image and photos? I thought about making the map black and white or something like that. Someone I know did this in order to display a tiny map on the display of a Metawatch by basically taking snapshots of an MKMapView, turning them into binary images and sending them to the watch.

I need to do a similiar thing in real time (and on the iPhone's display). Hope you guys understand what I'm trying to ask here :)

Thanks in advance!

[Check here](http://www.shawngrimes.me/2010/12/mapkit-overlays-session-1-overlay-map/) — Anoop Vaidya, Mar 29 '13 at 17:05
I am actually trying to manipulate the map *itself*, but thanks for the hint! — Dario, Mar 29 '13 at 17:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '13 at 17:37

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Not MapKit directly, but the MapBox iOS SDK can do that and more, plus is meant to behave like MapKit.

answered Mar 29 '13 at 17:37

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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I found the following question (and mainly the answer) as great solution Hiding mapview when mapoverlay is visible ios7

using MKTileOverlay and http://maps.stamen.com site

by the way .... they have http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/12/37.7706/-122.3782 which is a black and white map

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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answered Jul 03 '14 at 10:56

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Is there any way to change the appearance of MKMapView?

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