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Programmatically/Manually create a MKPlacemark/CLPlacemark

Asked 2012-02-01T02:38:20.950
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Problem

I have a set of placemark information (country, city, etc) and a Lat/Lon pair. I would like to use this to create an MKPlacemark object.

Discussion

It appears that this class can only be created by 

- (id)initWithCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coordinate addressDictionary:(NSDictionary *)addressDictionary

whose docs state states

You can create placemark objects manually for entities for which you already have address information, such as contacts in the Address Book. Creating a placemark object explicitly avoids the need to query the reverse geocoder object for the same information.

Perfect! I have already reverse-geocoded and wish to avoid such a query. What can I add to the dictionary?

For a list of strings that you can use for the keys of this dictionary, see the “Address Property” constants in ABPerson Reference. All of the keys in should be at the top level of the dictionary.

Which shows relevant keys

const ABPropertyID kABPersonAddressProperty;
const CFStringRef kABPersonAddressStreetKey;
const CFStringRef kABPersonAddressCityKey;
const CFStringRef kABPersonAddressStateKey;
const CFStringRef kABPersonAddressZIPKey;
const CFStringRef kABPersonAddressCountryKey;
const CFStringRef kABPersonAddressCountryCodeKey;

This falls quite short of the base traits for an MKPlacemark:

Accessing the Location Data

  • location property

Accessing the Placemark Attributes

  • name property
  • addressDictionary property
  • ISOcountryCode property
  • country property
  • postalCode property
  • administrativeArea property
  • subAdministrativeArea property
  • locality property
  • subLocality
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You can subclass MKPlacemark:

In MyPlacemark.h

@interface MyPlacemark : MKPlacemark

extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressThoroughfareKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubThoroughfareKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressLocalityKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubLocalityKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressAdministrativeAreaKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubAdministrativeAreaKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressPostalCodeKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressCountryKey;
extern NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressCountryCodeKey;

@end

In MyPlacemark.m:

#import "MyPlacemark.h"

@implementation MyPlacemark

NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressThoroughfareKey = @"thoroughfare";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubThoroughfareKey = @"subThoroughfare";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressLocalityKey = @"locality";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubLocalityKey = @"subLocality";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressAdministrativeAreaKey = @"administrativeArea";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubAdministrativeAreaKey = @"subAdministrativeArea";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressPostalCodeKey = @"postalCode";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressCountryKey = @"country";
NSString * const kCustomPlacemarkAddressCountryCodeKey = @"countryCode";

- (NSString *)thoroughfare
{
    return [self.addressDictionary objectForKey:kCustomPlacemarkAddressThoroughfareKey];
}

- (NSString *)subThoroughfare
{
    return [self.addressDictionary objectForKey:kCustomPlacemarkAddressSubThoroughfareKey];
}

- (NSString *)locality
{
    return [self.addressDictionary objectForKey:kCustomPlacemarkAddressLocalityKey];
}

- (NSString *)subLocality
{
    return [self.addressDictionary objectForKey:kCustomPlacemarkAddressSu
answered 2012-02-09T18:14:18.037

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