Forward geocoding from the iPhone

Question

Given that the mapkit doesn\'t provide forward geocoding functionality today, can anyone provide help on how I can i use a search bar to return a latitude and longitude coor

Answer 1

I have created SVGeocoder, a simple forward and reverse geocoder class for iOS. It uses the Google Geocoding API as well and returns an MKPlacemark.

This is how you geocode an address string:

NSString *addressString = @"3245 St-Denis, Montreal"
SVGeocoder *geocodeRequest = [[SVGeocoder alloc] initWithAddress:addressString];
[geocodeRequest setDelegate:self];
[geocodeRequest startAsynchronous];

And you reverse geocode an CLLocationCoordinate2D object like this:

CLLocationCoordinate2D coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(45.54181, -73.62928);
SVGeocoder *rGeocoderRequest = [[SVGeocoder alloc] initWithCoordinate:coordinate];
[rGeocoderRequest setDelegate:self];
[rGeocoderRequest startAsynchronous];

The SVGeocoderDelegate offers these 2 methods:

- (void)geocoder:(SVGeocoder *)geocoder didFindPlacemark:(MKPlacemark *)placemark;
- (void)geocoder:(SVGeocoder *)geocoder didFailWithError:(NSError *)error;