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M1X
M1X

Reputation: 5374

Firebase Firestore Save Placemark vs only Coordinates

I need to save in my table two Placemarks. One for the location and one for the destination. What I'm doing now is that im creating a dictionary with all the details as below:

let location: [String: Any] = [
    "coordinate": GeoPoint(latitude: item.location.coordinate.latitude , longitude: item.location.coordinate.longitude),
    "name": item.location.name,
    "isoCountryCode": item.location.isoCountryCode,
    "country": item.location.country,
    ...etc 
]

and then Im saving this to Firestore. Then Im parsing this to my Placemark model(not CLPlacemark).

Recently I was thinking if it better to save only the coordinates and then to use GeoCoder geocoder.reverseGeocodeLocation(location, completionHandler: { (placemarks, error) in to fetch the placemark.

So which is actually better?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 280

Answers (1)

JasonJotted
JasonJotted

Reputation: 666

It's much better to save only the coordinates. That way if there's something like a location name change, the saved placemark won't become outdated.

Upvotes: 1

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