Detecting a point in a MKPolygon broke with iOS7 (CGPathContainsPoint)

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For some reason (possibly a bug), the path property returns NULL in the current release of iOS 7.

A workaround is to construct your own CGPathRef from the points of the polygon.
With this method, you don’t need a reference to the MKPolygonView or the MKPolygonRenderer.

For example:

CGMutablePathRef mpr = CGPathCreateMutable();

MKMapPoint *polygonPoints = myPolygon.points;
//myPolygon is the MKPolygon

for (int p=0; p < myPolygon.pointCount; p++)
{
    MKMapPoint mp = polygonPoints[p];
    if (p == 0)
        CGPathMoveToPoint(mpr, NULL, mp.x, mp.y);
    else
        CGPathAddLineToPoint(mpr, NULL, mp.x, mp.y);
}

CGPoint mapPointAsCGP = CGPointMake(mapPoint.x, mapPoint.y);
//mapPoint above is the MKMapPoint of the coordinate we are testing.
//Putting it in a CGPoint because that's what CGPathContainsPoint wants.

BOOL pointIsInPolygon = CGPathContainsPoint(mpr, NULL, mapPointAsCGP, FALSE);

CGPathRelease(mpr);

This should work on iOS 6 as well.
However, you may want to do this manual construction only if the overlay view’s path property returns NULL.

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