Question

I am able to place annotations on my MKMapView by using latitude and longitude, however, my feed coming in that I need to use location for is using street addresses instead of Lat and Long. e.g 1234 west 1234 east, San Francisco, CA …

Would this have something to do with the CLLocationManager?

Has anyone attempted this before?

Answer 1

Based on psoft‘s excellent information, I was able to achieve what I was looking for with this code.

NSString *location = @"some address, state, and zip";
CLGeocoder *geocoder = [[CLGeocoder alloc] init];
            [geocoder geocodeAddressString:location 
                 completionHandler:^(NSArray* placemarks, NSError* error){
                     if (placemarks && placemarks.count > 0) {
                         CLPlacemark *topResult = [placemarks objectAtIndex:0];
                         MKPlacemark *placemark = [[MKPlacemark alloc] initWithPlacemark:topResult];

                         MKCoordinateRegion region = self.mapView.region;
                         region.center = placemark.region.center;
                         region.span.longitudeDelta /= 8.0;
                         region.span.latitudeDelta /= 8.0;

                         [self.mapView setRegion:region animated:YES];
                         [self.mapView addAnnotation:placemark];
                     }
                 }
             ];