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# MapKit

Display map or satellite imagery within your app, call out points of interest, and determine placemark information for map coordinates.

## Overview

Use MapKit to give your app a sense of place with maps and location information. You can use the MapKit framework to:

- Embed maps directly into your app’s windows and views.
- Add annotations and overlays to a map to call out points of interest.
- Add LookAround capabilities to enable users to explore locations at street level.
- Respond to user interactions with well known points of interest, geographical features, and boundaries.
- Provide text completion to make it easy for users to search for a destination or point of interest.

## Topics

### The MapKit APIs

[MapKit for AppKit and UIKit](/documentation/MapKit/mapkit-for-appkit-and-uikit)

[MapKit for SwiftUI](/documentation/MapKit/mapkit-for-swiftui)

MapKit for SwiftUI allows you to build map-centric views and apps across Apple platforms. You can design expressive and highly interactive Maps with minimal code by composing views, using ViewBuilders and view modifiers.

[Adopting unified Maps URLs](/documentation/MapKit/Unified-Map-URLs)

Access Maps URLs and options for displaying Maps information across Apple platforms.

## See Also

  [Location and Maps Programming Guide](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/LocationAwarenessPG/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009497)

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/MapKitJS>

  <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/AppleMapsServerAPI>


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