Get latitude/longitude from address

The following method does what you asked for. You need to insert your Google maps key for this to work correctly.

- (CLLocationCoordinate2D) geoCodeUsingAddress:(NSString *)address{

    int code = -1;
    int accuracy = -1;
    float latitude = 0.0f;
    float longitude = 0.0f;
    CLLocationCoordinate2D center;

    // setup maps api key
    NSString * MAPS_API_KEY = @"YOUR GOOGLE MAPS KEY HERE";

    NSString *escaped_address =  [address stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    // Contact Google and make a geocoding request
    NSString *requestString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=%@&output=csv&oe=utf8&key=%@&sensor=false&gl=it", escaped_address, MAPS_API_KEY];
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:requestString];

    NSString *result = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL: url encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];
        if(result){
            // we got a result from the server, now parse it
            NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:result];
            [scanner scanInt:&code];
            if(code == 200){
                // everything went off smoothly
                [scanner scanString:@"," intoString:nil];
                [scanner scanInt:&accuracy];

                //NSLog(@"Accuracy: %d", accuracy);

                [scanner scanString:@"," intoString:nil];
                [scanner scanFloat:&latitude];
                [scanner scanString:@"," intoString:nil];
                [scanner scanFloat:&longitude];


                center.latitude = latitude;
                center.longitude = longitude;

                return center;


            }
            else{
                // the server answer was not the one we expected
                UIAlertView *alert = [[[UIAlertView alloc] 
                                       initWithTitle: @"Warning" 
                                       message:@"Connection to G