UIImageView subview of a MapView

Question

I must add an ImageView as subview of MapView. I can not do it by code, because the ImageView always ends up behind the mapView. I can not do it in IB because in the file's owner the UIImageView is always external respect to the mapView ( I tried several times).I am using Xcode 4.5. Can I add a UIImageView as subview of MapView?

this is the code in MapViewController.h

 @property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *iphoneLegenda;
 @property (nonatomic, strong)IBOutlet MKMapView *mapView;

in MapViewController.m

@synthesize iphoneLegenda;
@synthesize mapView;

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
  //.....
    self.iphoneLegenda.frame = CGRectMake(self.mapView.bounds.origin.x, 
                            self.mapView.bounds.origin.y, 200, 100);

  //......

   [self.mapView addSubview:self.iphoneLegenda];
   [self.iphoneLegenda bringSubviewToFront:self.mapView];
  //.....
}

Answer 1

I think the answers of AntonPalich and MashDup are the best way. To add a subview inside mapView you have to add QuartzCore.framework and this is the code:

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
 CALayer *layer = [CALayer layer];
 layer.backgroundColor = [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor];
 layer.bounds = CGRectMake(mapView.frame.origin.x, mapView.frame.origin.y, 200, 100);
 [[mapView layer] addSublayer:layer];
}