JPSThumbnailAnnotation is an open-source library to customize your MapKit annotation view for displaying image thumbnails along with title and subtitle.  Here is a quick screenshot from my sample project using this library.

Setup

Its free, and open source; You need to download JPSThumbnailAnnotation library from github and drag/drop the directory into your project; You will have following six files in library;

  1. JPSThumbnail.h
  2. JPSThumbnailAnnotation.h
  3. JPSThumbnailAnnotation.m
  4. JPSThumbnailAnnotationView.h
  5. JPSThumbnailAnnotationView.m
  6. JPSThumnail.m
Usage import JPSThumbnailAnnotation.h and add the following line of code to add one annotation on your map view [code] JPSThumbnail *faisaMosqueAnnotation = [[JPSThumbnail alloc] init]; faisaMosqueAnnotation.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"faisalMasjid.jpg"]; faisaMosqueAnnotation.title = kFaisalMasjidTitle; faisaMosqueAnnotation.subtitle = kFaisalMasjidSubTitle; faisaMosqueAnnotation.coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(33.72976, 73.03698); faisaMosqueAnnotation.disclosureBlock = ^{ NSLog(@"Faisal Mosque selected"); }; JPSThumbnailAnnotation *annotation = [[JPSThumbnailAnnotation alloc] initWithThumbnail:faisaMosqueAnnotation]; [mapView addAnnotation:annotation]; [/code] You are good to go now .. You can download a sample project from here. Flag Counter Happy Programming .. (: