Mapkit lat- and longitude of current location

Question

I imagine its pretty simple, but I wont find it.

I want to show the longitude und latitude of the current user position in two textfields. One for each value.

But it defenatly wont work.

I thought it will be easy with one of the following values... But there are so many possibilitys of lon and lat...

mapView.userLocation.coordinate.latitude
mapView.userLocation.coordinate.latitude

mapView.userLocation.location.coordinate.latitude
mapView.userLocation.location.coordinate.longitude

Does anyone know which combination I need to take to simply get the long and lat value?

Thank you in advance from germany

Answer 1

The userLocation may not yet be available in viewDidLoad if that is also where the map view itself is being initialized.

A better place is in the didUpdateUserLocation delegate method:

- (void)mapView:(MKMapView *)mapView 
            didUpdateUserLocation:(MKUserLocation *)userLocation
{
    NSLog(@"userLocation = %f,%f", mapView.userLocation.coordinate.latitude, 
                                  mapView.userLocation.coordinate.longitude);
}

Also make sure that:

• map view's showsUserLocation is checked or set to YES
• map view's delegate is set