How to get the user's current location by code in iphone app?

Question

I want to get the user\'s current location from my iPhone app. I want to show the user\'s current location like country name, latitude, longitude information in my app. And

Answer 1

First create an instance of the MKMapView

To get user's latitude and longitude:

In your viewDidLoad

[yourMapView setShowsUserLocation:YES];

CLLocationCoordinate2D userCoord;

userCoord.latitude=map_view.userLocation.coordinate.latitude;
userCoord.longitude=map_view.userLocation.coordinate.longitude;

//NSLogging these on simulator will give you Cupertino or whatever location you set in location simulation.

And for country name you will need reversegeocoding you can look at the class reference here

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MapKit/Reference/MKReverseGeocoder_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008323

OR

If MKReverseGeoCoding gets too complicated you can use Yahoo's reversegeocoder

http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?q=%f,%f&gflags=R&appid=yourAppId, those 2 %f will be userCoord.longitude and userCoord.latitude.