Question

I have a MapView and a SearchBar. I enter some place name into the search bar. I need the MapView to search for the place I entered and mark that place with an annotation. Can anyone suggest the best steps to do this?

Answer 1

You can use Google api and NSXMLParser to get the coordinates of the searched place and then add annotation at that particular coordinate

For NSXMLParser look at my answer in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10845732/xml-parser-objective-c/10845892#10845892

You can use the following google api for getting the latlng

NSMutableString *url    =   [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address="];

// replace searchAddressString with your address from search bar.

[url appendString:[searchAddressString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@","]];
[url appendString:@"&sensor=true"];

Now to add annotation you can follow my answer here How to set Map location from any city or place name

Hope this will help you 🙂