"Name" of a CLPlacemark

Question

I'm trying to understand CLPlacemark and when/how to create information for a callout of a pin that is added to a map. Before what I read in More iOS 3 development a few years ago, they reverse geocoded an address and built the address (street, zip, state, etc). First, do I need to build this string myself? I was trying to find out how to get the name of a location for certain known things like searching for the apple store in the code below:

NSString *address = @"1 stockton, san francisco, ca";    
CLGeocoder *geocoder = [[CLGeocoder alloc] init];
        [geocoder geocodeAddressString:address completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {

    [placemarks enumerateObjectsUsingBlock:^(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
        NSLog(@"obj description: %@", [obj description]);

        CLPlacemark *aPlacemark = (CLPlacemark *)obj;
        NSLog(@"%@", [aPlacemark.addressDictionary description]);
        NSLog(@"name: %@", ((CLPlacemark *)obj).name);
    }];
];

When I print out the description, I see that the Console says:

Apple Store, San Francisco, 1 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA  94108-5805, United States @ <+37.78584545,-122.40651752> +/- 100.00m, region (identifier <+37.78584545,-122.40652161> radius 18.96) <+37.78584545,-122.40652161> radius 18.96m

Where does it get the Apple Store, San Francisco, name? I thought it would be the CLPlacemark.name property, but that is null. So in trying to figure out how the name property is created, I found:

        NSLog(@"%@", [aPlacemark.addressDictionary description]);

I get the output:

City = "San Francisco";
Country = "United States";
CountryCode = US;
FormattedAddressLines =     (
    "Apple Store, San Francisco",
    "1 Stockton St",
    "San Francisco, CA  94108-5805",
    "United States"
);
PostCodeExtension = 5805;
State = California;
Street = "1 Stockton St";
SubAdministrativeArea = "San Francisco";
SubLocality = "Union Square";
SubThoroughfare = 1;
Thoroughfare = "Stockton St";
ZIP = 94108;

From this, all I can see is that in the FormattedAddressLines key of the addressDictionary, the title is there as well.

So I guess my 2 questions are:

1) How do I get the name of a location if there is one (i.e. Apple Store)?

2) Do I need to build my string anymore since it seems like the address dictionary does that for me already?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use ABCreateStringWithAddressDictionary function from AddressBookUI framework to get the address string from CLPlacemark's "addressDictionary" property.