How do I do geocoding (NOT reverse geocoding) on iPhone?

Question

I am perplexed as to why there is an iPhone API for Reverse Geocoding (lat/long to address) but NOT for regular Geocoding (address to lat/long).

I want to be able to

Answer 1

Merrimack wrote an answer here with a useful example..

Forward geocoding from the iPhone

There is a nice blog post of him

http://blog.sallarp.com/ipad-iphone-forward-geocoding-api-google/