Question

I am using the MapKit for the iPhone and have it setup to get the user’s location and display it on the view. But I need to know which state they’re in so I know what data to load and display to the user. Is there any way to get that sort of info?

Answer 1

Have a look at the CurrentAddress code sample:

It makes use of the MKReverseGeocoder
class that provides services for
converting your map coordinate
(specified as a latitude/longitude
pair) into information about that
coordinate, such as the country, city,
or street. A reverse geocoder object
is a single-shot object that works
with a network-based map service to
look up placemark information for its
specified coordinate value. To use
placemark information is leverages the
MKPlacemark class to store this
information.