iOS : Swift - How to add pinpoint to map on touch and get detailed address of that location?

Question

I want to add annotation on touch of iOS map and fetch the detailed address (Placemark) of respective location. How I can achieve this in Swift?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To react to the touch on map you need to set up a tap recogniser for the mapView

in viewDidLoad:

let gestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(                               target: self, action:#selector(handleTap))     gestureRecognizer.delegate = self     mapView.addGestureRecognizer(gestureRecognizer) 

Handle the tap and get the tapped location coordinates:

func handleTap(gestureRecognizer: UITapGestureRecognizer) {          let location = gestureRecognizer.location(in: mapView)     let coordinate = mapView.convert(location, toCoordinateFrom: mapView)          // Add annotation:     let annotation = MKPointAnnotation()     annotation.coordinate = coordinate     mapView.addAnnotation(annotation) } 

Now you only have to implement the MKMapView delegate functions to draw the annotations. A simple google search should get you the rest of that.