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kamziro
kamziro

Reputation: 8140

Easiest way of getting reverse geocoded current location from iOS

I saw from another question here : Determine iPhone user's country that it is possible to get the current country the user of the iPhone is in.

And that is quite convenient for many uses. However, would it be possible to go even deeper and infer from iOS (if it has the information) which state or city the user is in as well?

I suppose reverse geocoding services would be the next step if things weren't possible.. Are there even such things as a reverse geocoding service you can hire for your app though?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 30885

Answers (4)

Walter
Walter

Reputation: 5887

I would start with the CLReverseGeocoder class.

This stackoverflow question gets the current city and can probably be adapted for your use.

Upvotes: 5

Yi Jiang
Yi Jiang

Reputation: 4028

Following codes can be easy to retrieve full-details.

 [geocoder reverseGeocodeLocation:newLocation completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {
        if(placemarks.count){

        placeNameLabel.text = [placemarks[0] name];
        streetNumberLabel.text = [placemarks[0] subThoroughfare];
        streetLabel.text = [placemarks[0] thoroughfare];
        neighborhoodLabel.text = [placemarks[0] subLocality];
        cityLabel.text = [placemarks[0] locality];
        countyLabel.text = [placemarks[0] subAdministrativeArea];
        stateLabel.text = [placemarks[0] administrativeArea];    //or province 
        zipCodeLabel.text = [placemarks[0] postalCode];
        countryLabel.text = [placemarks[0] country];
        countryCodeLabel.text = [placemarks[0] ISOcountryCode];
        inlandWaterLabel.text = [placemarks[0] inlandWater];
        oceanLabel.text = [placemarks[0] ocean];
        areasOfInterestLabel.text = [placemarks[0] areasOfInterest[0]];
        }
    }];

Upvotes: 3

Ankit Vyas
Ankit Vyas

Reputation: 7501

CLGeocoder *geocoder = [[CLGeocoder alloc] init];

CLLocation *newLocation = [[CLLocation alloc]initWithLatitude:21.1700
                                                    longitude:72.8300];

[geocoder reverseGeocodeLocation:newLocation
               completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {

                   if (error) {
                       NSLog(@"Geocode failed with error: %@", error);
                       return;
                   }

                   if (placemarks && placemarks.count > 0)
                   {
                       CLPlacemark *placemark = placemarks[0];

                       NSDictionary *addressDictionary =
                       placemark.addressDictionary;

                       NSLog(@"%@ ", addressDictionary);
                       NSString *address = [addressDictionary
                                            objectForKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressStreetKey];
                       NSString *city = [addressDictionary
                                         objectForKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressCityKey];
                       NSString *state = [addressDictionary
                                          objectForKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressStateKey];
                       NSString *zip = [addressDictionary 
                                        objectForKey:(NSString *)kABPersonAddressZIPKey];


                       NSLog(@"%@ %@ %@ %@", address,city, state, zip);
                   }

               }];

Result

{

  City = Surat;
  Country = India;
  CountryCode = IN;
  FormattedAddressLines =     (
    Surat,
    Gujarat,
    India
);
Name = Surat;
State = Gujarat;
} 
2012-12-20 21:33:26.284 CurAddress[4110:11603] (null) Surat Gujarat (null)

Upvotes: 24

fengd
fengd

Reputation: 7569

MKReverseGeocoder is deprecated in iOS 5, now it's CLGeocoder

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
   [self.locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];

   CLGeocoder * geoCoder = [[CLGeocoder alloc] init];
   [geoCoder reverseGeocodeLocation:newLocation completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {
       for (CLPlacemark * placemark in placemarks) {
           .... = [placemark locality];
        }    
    }];
}

Upvotes: 26

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