How to retrieve user's current city name?

Question

How do you retrieve the user's current city name?

Answer 1

As of iOS 5 MKReverseGeoCoder is Deprecated!

So you want to use CLGeocoder with CLLocationManager, very simple and works with block.

Example:

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager     didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation            fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {    [self.locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];     CLGeocoder * geoCoder = [[CLGeocoder alloc] init];     [geoCoder reverseGeocodeLocation:newLocation                    completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {                        for (CLPlacemark *placemark in placemarks) {                            .... = [placemark locality];                        }                    }]; } 

Edit: Instead of a for in loop you can also do:

NSString *locString = placemarks.count ? [placemarks.firstObject locality] : @"Not Found"; 

Answer 2

What you have to do is setup a CLLocationManager that will find your current coordinates. With the current coordinates you need to use MKReverseGeoCoder to find your location.

- (void)viewDidLoad  {       // this creates the CCLocationManager that will find your current location     CLLocationManager *locationManager = [[[CLLocationManager alloc] init] autorelease];     locationManager.delegate = self;     locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyNearestTenMeters;     [locationManager startUpdatingLocation]; }  // this delegate is called when the app successfully finds your current location - (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation  {     // this creates a MKReverseGeocoder to find a placemark using the found coordinates     MKReverseGeocoder *geoCoder = [[MKReverseGeocoder alloc] initWithCoordinate:newLocation.coordinate];     geoCoder.delegate = self;     [geoCoder start]; }  // this delegate method is called if an error occurs in locating your current location - (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didFailWithError:(NSError *)error  {  NSLog(@"locationManager:%@ didFailWithError:%@", manager, error); }  // this delegate is called when the reverseGeocoder finds a placemark - (void)reverseGeocoder:(MKReverseGeocoder *)geocoder didFindPlacemark:(MKPlacemark *)placemark {     MKPlacemark * myPlacemark = placemark;     // with the placemark you can now retrieve the city name     NSString *city = [myPlacemark.addressDictionary objectForKey:(NSString*) kABPersonAddressCityKey]; }  // this delegate is called when the reversegeocoder fails to find a placemark - (void)reverseGeocoder:(MKReverseGeocoder *)geocoder didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {     NSLog(@"reverseGeocoder:%@ didFailWithError:%@", geocoder, error); }