iPhone - Get City name from Latitude and Longtiude

Question

I want get my Current City name in my iPhone App.

I\'m currently getting the latitude and longitude using CLLocationManager and than i am passing my coordinates into

Answer 1

I improved @Constantin Saulenco great answer- the json results in not always ordered in same order - so city is not always at the same index - this func will search for the right one. Added country as well.

NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=%f,%f&sensor=false",location.coordinate.latitude, location.coordinate.longitude];
NSError* error;
NSString *locationString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString] encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];

NSData *data = [locationString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
id json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:nil];

NSDictionary *dic = [[json objectForKey:@"results"] objectAtIndex:0];
NSArray* arr = [dic objectForKey:@"address_components"];
//Iterate each result of address components - find locality and country
NSString *cityName;
NSString *countryName;
for (NSDictionary* d in arr)
{
    NSArray* typesArr = [d objectForKey:@"types"];
    NSString* firstType = [typesArr objectAtIndex:0];
    if([firstType isEqualToString:@"locality"])
        cityName = [d objectForKey:@"long_name"];
    if([firstType isEqualToString:@"country"])
        countryName = [d objectForKey:@"long_name"];

}

NSString* locationFinal = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@,%@",cityName,countryName];