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iOS

Posted by Kyle Binger
Kyle Binger
3,357 Points

Type in city to get location instead of using x and y co-ordinates?

Hi, i've been going through the build a weather app for iOS treehouse videos.

I'd like to be able to type in the location (city name) in a text box and display the location and the locations weather values. I know that the api requests coordinates to determine location. Is there a way to type in the location (city) and reverse engineer some code to get the x and y coordinates. It just seems more feasible for a user to type in a city versus find location coordinates and type those in.

1 Answer

jason phillips
jason phillips
18,131 Points
jason phillips
jason phillips
18,131 Points

Google maps api has a link you can do a web request to and get geolocation data. check out https://developers.google.com/maps/ there is some information on how to get geo data in ios.