Moving a CLLocation by x meters

Question

I have a CLLocation defined, and I\'d like to move that point x meters to the east and y meters to the south. How may I achieve that?

Answer 1

Strange that nobody thought of using MKCoordinateRegion from MapKit to calculate that automatically.

import MapKit

extension CLLocation {
    func movedBy(latitudinalMeters: CLLocationDistance, longitudinalMeters: CLLocationDistance) -> CLLocation {
        let region = MKCoordinateRegion(center: coordinate, latitudinalMeters: abs(latitudinalMeters), longitudinalMeters: abs(longitudinalMeters))

        let latitudeDelta = region.span.latitudeDelta
        let longitudeDelta = region.span.longitudeDelta

        let latitudialSign = CLLocationDistance(latitudinalMeters.sign == .minus ? -1 : 1)
        let longitudialSign = CLLocationDistance(longitudinalMeters.sign == .minus ? -1 : 1)

        let newLatitude = coordinate.latitude + latitudialSign * latitudeDelta
        let newLongitude = coordinate.longitude + longitudialSign * longitudeDelta

        let newCoordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2D(latitude: newLatitude, longitude: newLongitude)

        let newLocation = CLLocation(coordinate: newCoordinate, altitude: altitude, horizontalAccuracy: horizontalAccuracy, verticalAccuracy: verticalAccuracy, course: course, speed: speed, timestamp: Date())

        return newLocation
    }
}