Question: I am trying to capture tap event on my `MKMapView`, this way I can drop a `MKPinAnnotation` on the point where user tapped. Basically I have a map overlayed with `MKOverlayViews` (an overlay showing a building) and I would like to give user more information about that Overlay when they tap on it by dropping a `MKPinAnnotaion` and showing more information in the callout.
Thank you.

Answer: 
You can use a `UIGestureRecognizer` to detect touches on the map view.

Instead of a single tap, however, I would suggest looking for a double tap (`UITapGestureRecognizer`) or a long press (`UILongPressGestureRecognizer`). A single tap might interfere with the user trying to single tap on the pin or callout itself.

In the place where you setup the map view (in `viewDidLoad` for example), attach the gesture recognizer to the map view:

```
UITapGestureRecognizer *tgr = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] 
    initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleGesture:)];
tgr.numberOfTapsRequired = 2;
tgr.numberOfTouchesRequired = 1;
[mapView addGestureRecognizer:tgr];
[tgr release];

```

or to use a long press:

```
UILongPressGestureRecognizer *lpgr = [[UILongPressGestureRecognizer alloc] 
    initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleGesture:)];
lpgr.minimumPressDuration = 2.0;  //user must press for 2 seconds
[mapView addGestureRecognizer:lpgr];
[lpgr release];

```

In the `handleGesture:` method:

```
- (void)handleGesture:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer
{
    if (gestureRecognizer.state != UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded)
        return;

    CGPoint touchPoint = [gestureRecognizer locationInView:mapView];
    CLLocationCoordinate2D touchMapCoordinate = 
        [mapView convertPoint:touchPoint toCoordinateFromView:mapView];

    MKPointAnnotation *pa = [[MKPointAnnotation alloc] init];
    pa.coordinate = touchMapCoordinate;
    pa.title = @"Hello";
    [mapView addAnnotation:pa];
    [pa release];
}

```
For some reason, the UIGestureRecognizer just didn't work for me in Swift. When I use the UIGestureRecognizer way. When I used the touchesEnded method, it returns a MKNewAnnotationContainerView. It seems that this MKNewAnnotationContainerView blocked my MKMapView. Fortunately enough, it's a subview of MKMapView. So I looped through MKNewAnnotationContainerView's superviews till self.view to get the MKMapView. And I managed to pin the mapView by tapping. 

**Swift 4.1**

```
override func touchesEnded(_ touches: Set<UITouch>, with event: UIEvent?) {
    let t = touches.first
    print(t?.location(in: self.view) as Any)
    print(t?.view?.superview?.superview.self as Any)
    print(mapView.self as Any)
    var tempView = t?.view
    while tempView != self.view {
        if tempView != mapView {
            tempView = tempView?.superview!
        }else if tempView == mapView{
            break
        }

    }
  let convertedCoor = mapView.convert((t?.location(in: mapView))!, toCoordinateFrom: mapView)
   let pin =  MKPointAnnotation()
    pin.coordinate = convertedCoor
    mapView.addAnnotation(pin)
}

```