Convert coordinates to City name?

Question

How to get an address from coordinates using MapKit?

I have this code when long press on the map it gets the coordinates:

func didLongPressMap(sender: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {

    if sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Began {
        let touchPoint = sender.locationInView(self.mapView)
        let touchCoordinate = self.mapView.convertPoint(touchPoint, toCoordinateFromView: self.mapView)
        var annotation = MKPointAnnotation()
        annotation.coordinate = touchCoordinate
        annotation.title = "Your position"
        self.mapView.addAnnotation(annotation) //drops the pin
        println("lat:  \(touchCoordinate.latitude)")
        var num = (touchCoordinate.latitude as NSNumber).floatValue
        var formatter = NSNumberFormatter()
        formatter.maximumFractionDigits = 4
        formatter.minimumFractionDigits = 4
        var str = formatter.stringFromNumber(num)
        println("long: \(touchCoordinate.longitude)")
        var num1 = (touchCoordinate.longitude as NSNumber).floatValue
        var formatter1 = NSNumberFormatter()
        formatter1.maximumFractionDigits = 4
        formatter1.minimumFractionDigits = 4
        var str1 = formatter1.stringFromNumber(num1)
        self.adressLoLa.text = "\(num),\(num1)"
                }
}

and I want to print in annotation.title the complete address (street, city, zip, country).

Answer 1

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SWIFT 4.2 : EDIT

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MapKit framework does provide a way to get address details from coordinates.

You need to use reverse geocoding of map kit. CLGeocoder class is used to get the location from address and address from the location (coordinates). The method reverseGeocodeLocation will returns the address details from coordinates.

This method accepts CLLocation as a parameter and returns CLPlacemark, which contains address dictionary.

So now above method will be updated as:

@objc func didLongPressMap(sender: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {

    if sender.state == UIGestureRecognizer.State.began {
        let touchPoint = sender.location(in: mapView)
        let touchCoordinate = mapView.convert(touchPoint, toCoordinateFrom: self.mapView)
        let annotation = MKPointAnnotation()
        annotation.coordinate = touchCoordinate
        annotation.title = "Your position"
        mapView.addAnnotation(annotation) //drops the pin
        print("lat:  \(touchCoordinate.latitude)")
        let num = touchCoordinate.latitude as NSNumber
        let formatter = NumberFormatter()
        formatter.maximumFractionDigits = 4
        formatter.minimumFractionDigits = 4
        _ = formatter.string(from: num)
        print("long: \(touchCoordinate.longitude)")
        let num1 = touchCoordinate.longitude as NSNumber
        let formatter1 = NumberFormatter()
        formatter1.maximumFractionDigits = 4
        formatter1.minimumFractionDigits = 4
        _ = formatter1.string(from: num1)
        self.adressLoLa.text = "\(num),\(num1)"

        // Add below code to get address for touch coordinates.
        let geoCoder = CLGeocoder()
        let location = CLLocation(latitude: touchCoordinate.latitude, longitude: touchCoordinate.longitude)
        geoCoder.reverseGeocodeLocation(location, completionHandler:
            {
                placemarks, error -> Void in

                // Place details
                guard let placeMark = placemarks?.first else { return }

                // Location name
                if let locationName = placeMark.location {
                    print(locationName)
                }
                // Street address
                if let street = placeMark.thoroughfare {
                    print(street)
                }
                // City
                if let city = placeMark.subAdministrativeArea {
                    print(city)
                }
                // Zip code
                if let zip = placeMark.isoCountryCode {
                    print(zip)
                }
                // Country
                if let country = placeMark.country {
                    print(country)
                }
        })
    }
}