Question

I’m currently implementing startMonitoringFromRegion:

-  (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation
{   
    self.currentLocation = newLocation;


    if (![CLLocationManager regionMonitoringAvailable] ||
        ![CLLocationManager regionMonitoringEnabled])
        return;

    CLLocationDegrees radius = 5;
    if (radius > self.locationManager.maximumRegionMonitoringDistance)
        radius = self.locationManager.maximumRegionMonitoringDistance;


    CLRegion* region = [[CLRegion alloc] initCircularRegionWithCenter:self.currentLocation.coordinate
                                                               radius:radius 
                                                           identifier:@"Indentifier"];

    [self.locationManager startMonitoringForRegion:region desiredAccuracy:kCLLocationAccuracyHundredMeters];
    [region release];

}

When I enter a new region didEnterRegion will get called.
My question here is, what should I do in didEnterRegion?

I have an array of all my coordinates. Should I extract region.center and compare that coordinate to my array of coordinates, and see which one of the coordinates that’s closest to region.center?

Answer 1

I noted that CLRegion has a wonderful method called containsCoordinate.

So instead of looping through all my McDonald’s array coordinates in didEnterRegion and check if their distance is less than x kilometers from region.center, I can now just use containsCoordinate.

for (Restaurant *restaurant in arrRestaurants)
{
    CLLocation *restaurantLocation = [[CLLocation alloc] initWithLatitude:[resturant.latitude doubleValue] longitude:[restraurant.longitude doubleValue]];

    if ([region containsCoordinate: restaurantLocation.coordinate])
    {
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"McDonads found in the region!" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", restaurant.town] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
        [alert show];
        [alert release];         
    }
}

Now, I haven’t tried this yet, but to me it seems logical.